Is CloudFront in Front of S3 Actually Worth the Extra Cost? A Clear-Sighted Engineer’s Guide

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When a Growing Startup Served Static Files to the World: Sam's Story Sam worked at a two-year-old startup that hosted all front-end assets in a single S3 bucket