TL;DR
AWS introduces tiered flat-rate pricing for CloudFront ($0-$1,000/month) eliminating overage charges for traffic spikes and DDoS attacks.
Key Points
- Four pricing tiers: Free ($0/month), Pro ($15/month), Business ($200/month), Premium ($1,000/month)
- All paid tiers include up to 50TB monthly data transfer; Free tier includes 1TB perpetual tier
- Blocked requests and DDoS attack traffic don't count against usage allowances
- No annual commitment required; users can mix flat-rate and pay-as-you-go pricing across distributions
Why It Matters
Eliminates unpredictable cost spikes from viral traffic or DDoS attacks—a major pain point for developers running production applications. Provides cost predictability for small projects and startups while maintaining flexibility to scale, making AWS infrastructure accessible for personal projects and educational use without financial risk.
Source: aws.amazon.com