CF CDN for s3 service
I’m planning to build a s3 service and probably people asked this a lot but can I use CF CDN in front of my s3, without issues? I looked on forums etc. there is a lot of cluttered content available so I’m kinda confused.
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It depends on what kind of content you are serving. Does your bucket primarily contain images/video?
Probably depends on the users but I’m assuming yes
more specifically your exact issue is this:
https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-application-services/#content-delivery-network-terms
Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.Exceptions being: 1. Hosting the content on Cloudflare using one of the excluded services (ex: R2) 2. Enterprise
Hmm and I’m assuming enterprise version works like AWS cloudfront? Like pay what you use?
Enterprise version comes with a contract, which may entail paying for bandwidth/other billables
Well that's not a "may", it does, with Enterprise contracts you pay for everything including bandwidth/requests/etc
They also start at a min of a few thousand/month
Ah I see, thanks for the clarification 🙂
yea each contract is under nda so there's no public pricing or anything like that, but some information has been disclosed before. Enterprise is all piecemeal, there's the base product and then you pay for each extra thing you want. You can get some things like Argo Smart Routing without paying per gigabyte but part of the agreement is a certain amount of usage (requests/bandwidth)
I remember reading enterprise is paid yearly, so either the cheaper Enterprise plan starting at like $24,000/year or the more expensive tier at like $50-60,000/year. All paid upfront