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I'm a huge fan of CloudFront - especially since the release of CloudFront Functions that are way cheaper and faster than Lambda@Edge. In my opinion, it's the most flexible CDN solution, as you can easily tamper with the request at every step by running simple JavaScript on the edge.

After migrating away from Edgio, which comes with an XML-based rules engine that was powerful, yes, but not really easy to work with. With CloudFront, we now have a lot of benefits that we've really missed before:

• Instead of hard-to-read XML, we have simple, readable JavaScript rules. • We can test our functions in advance. • Deployment time decreased from 20-40 minutes to 2-5 minutes without version flickering.

I've written a detailed blog post about our journey that you can find on the AWS Fundamentals blog! ✍️ blog.awsfundamentals.com/edgio-to-cl...

Great read! I just moved one of my projects _away_ from CloudFront/S3 because it became too expensive 😀 Combined with CloudFront functions and Lambda@Edge it's a great and very flexible service, but once you have more than 1TB traffic/month, it gets pretty expensive pretty fast...