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Amazon CloudFront free tier (as the egress layer for any origin)

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Free allowance
1 TB/month data transfer out + 10,000,000 HTTP/HTTPS requests + 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations, free every month, explicitly 'no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup'.
Verdict
fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost
free tier
Identity
email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit
per-ip-shaping500 GB/day
Evidence
reported1 source; a third party said so
Freshness
stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
Free tier1 TB/month data transfer out + 10,000,000 HTTP/HTTPS requests + 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations, free every month, explicitly 'no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup'.
unit TB; metered on unstated
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • per-ip-shaping (binding) 500 GB/day source
Beyond that it is metered at standard CloudFront rates. Origin fetch traffic still hits the origin's own egress meter (so pairing it with Oracle means Oracle's 10 TB absorbs the cache misses).
Bindingper-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
EgressThis IS the egress allowance: 1 TB/month free to the internet from 300+ PoPs, worldwide except China PoPs.
free allowance: 1 TB per month
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Interfaces3, rest, oci, cli rest
ToolingCloudFront distributions in front of any HTTP origin (S3, an OCI VM, a block-volume nginx); terraform/CLI; signed URLs and signed cookies for access control.
Composes with1 TB/month free egress per AWS account. It stacks with Oracle's own 10 TB/month.
ReliabilityMature CDN, no ban risk; the only issue is that 1 TB/month is a ceiling, not a service level.
Parsed numbers
  • per-ip-shaping 500 GB / day
Evidence 1
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-21aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansi'Data Transfer from Amazon CloudFront is now free for up to 1 TB of data per month ... and is no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup'
More fields 1
{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "1 TB/month data transfer out + 10,000,000 HTTP/HTTPS requests + 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations, free every month, explicitly 'no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup'.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}
Unknown values 4
  • $.per_object_cap.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
  • $.per_object_cap.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read
  • $.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
  • $.retention.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read