Comments on: Amazon Web Services Launches CloudFront

By: Amazon CloudFront - CDN on a budget | VT's Tech Blog

Amazon CloudFront - CDN on a budget | VT's Tech Blog — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:03:15 +0000

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By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:24:27 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this type of CDN has not control over expiry right? Which means each time a photo/thumbnail is loaded it gets pulled from there and therefore charged for in bandwidth and requests. Anyone knows how to avoid this by still using CloudFront?

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:43:37 +0000

Sucky stuff. Amazon uptime is terrible. No streaming. Plain caching

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links for 2008-11-19 | Yostivanich.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:13:53 +0000

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By: cartman

cartman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:53:29 +0000

Good. Now its ‘cloud computing’ and I am happy it will generate more consulting and employment opportunities Long ago it used to be called ‘Service Bureas’, then it was called Application Service Provider (ASP) and now its called ‘Cloud Computing’

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— Amazon launches its CDN - CloudFront Think API — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:40:26 +0000

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By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:19:25 +0000

James: can you link your site? I wanna check out the speeds

By: gresh

gresh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:19:42 +0000

CDN pricing models aren’t opaque if you are a customer or potential customer, or a rival CDN. We’ve renegotiated 3 times in the past 2 years, and each time all 5 CDN’s we’ve talked to knew exactly what their competition was charging or proposing to charge. Sometimes because I told them.

It’s still a very insular business – all the rival people we negotiate with know each other by name, and have usually worked together at one CDN or the other before switching jobs. Amazon (and AT&T) are trying to break it open in a big way. We’ll just have to see, but as noted by others, the more players the better.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:13:33 +0000

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By: James

James — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:13:31 +0000

Cool, took me about 15 mins to read the docs & migrate to cloudfront. Another 20 mins to tweak my site to correctly read images from the new domain name & I’m done. Bad news is, being in Australia it looks like the closest node is still in the US (LA). Good news I’m getting massive speed improvements. Consistently x2 as fast or more than non-CDN speeds!

Amazon’s costs and negligible to me. I host in Australia and we always go over our included bandwidth at some at $ 3.3 / GB that’s some expensive excess data charges. I’ve been using S3 to serve almost all our image file to avoid some of the bandwidth cost, but I haven’t been happy with S3 speed at this point. This CDN really makes a big difference to me. I’m happy to migrate most of our remaining files across. Awesome work Amazon, fantastic integration with S3 – thanks!

By: James

James — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:10:06 +0000

Oh that is really cool. I’ve been hosting content with S3 ready to port over to their CDN when it came out. Migrating now!

By: JP

JP — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:00:25 +0000

AWS is really trying to appeal to a broad range of companies. My company, Convos, only uses two of their 7+ services. While, I think all of the new services are cool, I hope it doesn’t detract from the maintenance and improvement of their other services.

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:40:00 +0000

We have released a new version of Bucket Explorer, which adds support for managing CloudFront Distributions.
http://www.bucketexplorer.com/

By: Digital Music Distribution

Digital Music Distribution — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:54:22 +0000

This is all moving in the right direction for Amazon. Cloud computing is the way forward for developers

By: Mike @ WannaDevelop.com

Mike @ WannaDevelop.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:16:26 +0000

The more players the better… Having AMAZON more involved is great and should push forward more progress all across.

Bravo!

Mike,

By: Amazon’s CloudFront « Wir sprechen Online.

Amazon’s CloudFront « Wir sprechen Online. — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:48:14 +0000

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By: Amazon Web Services Launches CloudFront | visualpanic.net

Amazon Web Services Launches CloudFront | visualpanic.net — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:42:44 +0000

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By: Robert Ennis

Robert Ennis — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:41:39 +0000

Probably It ’s time for many of the CDNs (whose pricing models are opaque) to be transparent and competitive. Some of them may have tough times to sustain in course of time…

By: Peter Epstein

Peter Epstein — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:12:53 +0000

That’s awesome. I’ve been looking forward to Amazon launching that for a while although the price seems a little higher then I initially anticipated.

Peter Epstein
http://www.thewebwar.com