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Cheaper and faster than AWS Cloudfront with free custom SSL. So what is the catch?

One issue is our data is on S3 and I believe that any outgoing S3 traffic to this CDN would be slow and cost money, but S3 to CloudFront is is likely prioritized and free.

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Outgoing traffic from S3 has no bandwidth cost associated with it.

That isn't true. S3 has no bandwidth cost for incoming traffic, but it certainly does outgoing to the internet: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/.

Oops my bad. Havent had my full dose of coffee today.

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