Amazon CloudFront free tier (as the egress layer for any origin)
- 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 tier | 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'. unit TB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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). |
| Binding | per-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | This 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 cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | s3, rest, oci, cli rest |
| Tooling | CloudFront 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 with | 1 TB/month free egress per AWS account. It stacks with Oracle's own 10 TB/month. |
| Reliability | Mature CDN, no ban risk; the only issue is that 1 TB/month is a ceiling, not a service level. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | aws.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
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