28 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon CloudFront first-hand: 5 endorse it, 5 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“We also serve static content from an S3 bucket and cloudfront. Nothing else to manage once its setup.”
endorse · production · hylaride · 2025-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“those services (cloudfront and ECS being large ones) worked so poorly that caching/reconciliation layers were added”
regret · production · dijit · 2022-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched S3 & Cloudfront: now my bill is $0.80/month.”
endorse · personal · ordinaryperson · 2019-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Hosting static websites on S3 + CloudFront is really cheap.”
endorse · production · danieka · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Used in conjunction with Amazon Cloudfront, I thought it was perfect for streaming content.”
endorse · production · rloc · 2017-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to them a while back because CloudFront had a mystery problem with SSL certs that bit us.”
regret · production · drcongo · 2017-07-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“per request pricing... it was the biggest component of our cloudfront bill because we have lot of small resources”
regret · production · boundlessdreamz · 2015-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we were using AWS CloudFront, our costs quickly escalated to $100/day as we brought on new customers.”
regret · production · aagha · 2015-09-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We weren't too impressed with Cloudfront. The performance was all over the place and they provide no insight for cache hits/misses.”
regret · production · cmer · 2013-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Definitely impressed with how quickly it went. ... the only problems that I ran into were invalidation and permissions”
mixed · personal · johnbellone · 2012-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Bandwidth is too expensive for day-to-day usage but great for overflows.”
mixed · production · slyall · 2010-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“still enjoying the caching and performance benefits of a CDN like Cloudfront.”
endorse · production · roachsocal · 2010-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You'd probably be crazy to do this in production for a real site however, at least until cache invalidation with CF gives you more control.”
mixed · personal · andrewvc · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In Prod, we use a CDN to server the static files using AWS ALB and Cloudfront.”
neutral · production · Cshelton · 2025-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“specific AWS WAF rulesets are enabled on e.g. CloudFront endpoints. These are managed rulesets by AWS.”
neutral · production · stingraycharles · 2025-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Was at a startup that paid 5k/mo for Cloudfront and moved to Cloudflare and paid just 200/mo.”
neutral · production · hw · 2022-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Main cost factors are the database(s) and CloudFront.”
neutral · production · hpeinar · 2022-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Half of the calls pull static cached data from a CDN (Cloudfront)”
neutral · production · cj · 2019-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“(+S3+Cloudfront for web page hosting)”
neutral · production · adzicg · 2018-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using s3_website (1.4k stars) and it works great w/ Jekyll and CloudFront as well”
neutral · personal · andersonmvd · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“11 or so S3 buckets that back Cloudfront distributions for static content for websites”
neutral · production · themartorana · 2016-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after using pre-processed versions using carrierwave / ImageMagick / cloudfront”
neutral · production · gingerlime · 2015-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At Eager we use CloudFront for our app”
neutral · production · bosdev · 2015-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The grunt-aws module makes deploying to S3 and cloudfront a breeze.”
neutral · production · thoughtpalette · 2015-01-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using jekyll for a while. Then I decided to piece together how to replicate what the obama campaign did using s3 and cloudfront”
neutral · personal · sudonim · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“put Cloudfront in front of it.”
neutral · production · 1 yr · byoung2 · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had been using this on a few of our side projects for a while now (since Amazon introduced custom origin servers on Cloudfront)”
neutral · personal · traviskuhl · 2010-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?