 ## High CDN Cost = Content Delivery - CDN's cost between 20 and 60 on major CDN's from Amazon, Google, ..., after negotiation and willingness to park lots of money and commit per month it might be certain discount. - Other specialized CDN's can be around 10 per TB if services from e.g. Europe or US, smaller CDN's are much more expensive. - Managing these CDN's is expensive and not easy job. > This means to service 10m people, it would cost about 1 to 2m USD per month just for CDN alone. # CDN Pricing Amazon Remark no fees included for HTTPS requests, but should be ok for volume we are talking about, if app is made in right way. | Location | Price per TB (USD) | | ----------- | ------------------ | | US | 28 | | Middle East | 56 | | Africa | 56 | ## CloudFront Price Amazon: Regional Data Transfer Out to Origin (per GB) | | United States, Mexico, and Canada | Europe, Israel, and Türkiye | South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Middle East | South America | Japan | Australia and New Zealand | Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam | India | | ----------------- | --------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ------ | ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | All Data Transfer | $0.020 | $0.020 | $0.060 | $0.125 | $0.060 | $0.080 | $0.060 | $0.160 | References: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ ## Discounts - Discounts can be negotiated but required serious amounts of pre-financing # CDN Pricing Google Remark no fees included for HTTPS requests, but should be ok for volume we are talking about, if app is made in right way. | | **< 10 TiB** | **10 TiB-150 TiB** | **150 TiB-500 TiB** | **\> 500 TiB** | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----- | ------------ | ------------------ | ------------------- | | Asia Pacific<br>(including Hong Kong) | $0.09 | $0.06 | $0.05 | On demand | | China | $0.20 | $0.17 | $0.16 | On demand | | Europe | $0.08 | $0.055 | $0.03 | On demand | | North America<br>(including Hawaii) | $0.08 | $0.055 | $0.03 | On demand | | Oceania | $0.11 | $0.09 | $0.08 | On demand | | South America | $0.09 | $0.06 | $0.05 | On demand | | All other destinations<br>(including Mexico, Central America, and Middle East) | $0.09 | $0.06 | $0.05 | On demand | References: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/pricing