[ludjer]

Anyone doing serious traffic with AWS will use cloud front and then you get additional savings on-top of that and you can negotiate a better rate then provided depending on usage so some people pay way less then the advertised price.

[judge2020]

Sure, if you're a business that has to burn money on servers anyways, but a lot of people avoid AWS for side-projects and non-business applications because it can easily balloon to over $100/month with just a few services and moderate traffic.

[pnpnp]

Counter-point: it can also be extremely cheap.

I’m in a seemingly small subset of people that is very happy with AWS for side projects. Granted I’m not doing anything that requires many resources.

[kmeisthax]

Also, CloudFront can't proxy bare EC2 servers, you have to shove them behind an ELB, which is additional cost.