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Because S3 makes a terrible CDN. The latency is bad and can vary significantly.

Using it as a CDN for very large files is fine but for standard static web assets it's terrible.

Where was S3 mentioned? The post said CloudFront.

Dropbox uses S3

Yes, but not directly. They've built or are using a CDN in front of S3, just like CloudFront.