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Just use a CDN like CloudFront or Cloudflare. S3 is for storage, not retrieval. Building your own poorly distributed not at edge psuedo-CDN won't help as using a real edge CDN. Edge CDNs are closer.

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No, I'm not using S3 as a CDN I'm using it like a database. S3 works wonderfully as a database.

Ah I see in that case you would have to do something like this -- otherwise CDNs are the way to go. Was wondering about that

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