CloudFront Seems Like a No-Brainer

Doug Kaye, who actually wrote a book on hosting, has been beta testing Amazon’s CloudFront service—a high performance front end for Amazon S3. Doug’s favorably impressed.

My calculations show that Kynetx would be able to put 80% of our bandwidth load on CloudFront (most static JS libraries) for $1.19 per day and if Doug’s experience is typical get better performance to boot! Seems like a no-brainer to me given that we’re paying several hundred dollars per month for a 750 Kbps circuit that I’d rather not upgrade for a while. Offloading 80% of that traffic would give us a lot of head room!

Posted by windley on November 18, 2008 5:38 PM