«In a day and age where more and more applications are built on the Web, availability and scalability are critical concerns for the companies developing these apps. And that has made the business of content delivery an extremely lucrative one. Unfortunately for smaller players, the pricing of content-delivery services has been prohibitive at best, leaving more traditional CDNs out of reach for small to medium size businesses. With CloudFront, Amazon hopes to tap this under-served market.»

"The specialized cloud stack and its meters exposes code inefficiencies that may have gone undetected in a standard hosting environment. Programmers who learn the inner workings of their virtual machine under an environment of constraints will ultimately write better code in any system."