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Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for CloudFront Origin Shield Requests
Amazon CloudFront's Origin Shield is a caching layer designed to reduce load on your origin servers. But as of recent contract renegotiations, AWS now charges for each request that hits Origin Shield — including requests that result in cache misses and must forward to the origin anyway. For a site doing 50 million requests per month, that's an extra $375 in fees that didn't exist two years ago. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the new pricing, why it exists, how to analyze your cache hit ratio, and whether Origin Shield is still worth enabling. They also compare it to…
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