Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
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Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#2Pricing, since it's not explicitly mentioned in the blog post:
You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one
or more CloudFront distributions. This monthly fee is pro-rated by the hour.
For example, if you had your custom SSL certificate associated with at least
one CloudFront distribution for just 24 hours (i.e. 1 day) in the month of June,
your total charge for using the custom SSL certificate feature in June will be
(1 day / 30 days) * $600 = $20.Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#3Both of these features look really useful; kudos to AWS for launching them. I've already moved my personal website's root domain directly to CloudFront. (I was previously hosting the root domain through S3 and the "www" through CloudFront, so it's nice to have them both set up the same way now.)
Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#4Pricing, since it's not explicitly mentioned in the blog post: You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions. This monthly fee is pro-rated by the hour. For example, if you had your custom SSL certificate associated with at least one CloudFront distribution for just 24 hours (i.e. 1 day) in the month of June, your total charge for using the custom SSL cert…
You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions.
This is... impressively expensive.
Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#5Both of these features look really useful; kudos to AWS for launching them. I've already moved my personal website's root domain directly to CloudFront. (I was previously hosting the root domain through S3 and the "www" through CloudFront, so it's nice to have them both set up the same way now.)
I just made exactly the same change with libarchive.org; I'm guessing a lot of people will be doing this over the next few days...
Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#6Pricing, since it's not explicitly mentioned in the blog post: You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions. This monthly fee is pro-rated by the hour. For example, if you had your custom SSL certificate associated with at least one CloudFront distribution for just 24 hours (i.e. 1 day) in the month of June, your total charge for using the custom SSL cert…
You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions. This is... impressively expensive.
Not compared to how expensive CloudFront is. cough
Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#7Any ideas on how they accomplish this?
I presume it means that when I upload an SSL cert and associate it with one (or more) cloudfront distribution, that Amazon ends up dedicating at least one IP address at every edge location solely to my SSL cert?
I guess the scarcity of IP address space explains the steep pricing? They want you to consider other options before asking to reserve 40 dedicated IP addresses.
Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#8Pricing, since it's not explicitly mentioned in the blog post: You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions. This monthly fee is pro-rated by the hour. For example, if you had your custom SSL certificate associated with at least one CloudFront distribution for just 24 hours (i.e. 1 day) in the month of June, your total charge for using the custom SSL cert…
Jesus. I served 5 TB of video on a site with Cloudfront last month and it was cheaper than that. I'll stick with my uglyrandomletters.cloudfront.net domain.
Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#9Pricing, since it's not explicitly mentioned in the blog post: You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions. This monthly fee is pro-rated by the hour. For example, if you had your custom SSL certificate associated with at least one CloudFront distribution for just 24 hours (i.e. 1 day) in the month of June, your total charge for using the custom SSL cert…
You pay $600 per month for each custom SSL certificate associated with one or more CloudFront distributions. This is... impressively expensive.
Not when you think about what's going on behind the scenes. There are 40 CloudFront datacenters, which means all 40 of them have to have a dedicated IP and setup just for you and your SSL certificate.
Re: Custom SSL Domain Names and Root Domain Hosting for Amazon CloudFront
#10Any ideas on how they accomplish this? I presume it means that when I upload an SSL cert and associate it with one (or more) cloudfront distribution, that Amazon ends up dedicating at least one IP address at every edge location solely to my SSL cert? I guess the scarcity of IP address space explains the steep pricing? They want you to consider other options before asking to reserve 40 dedicated IP addresses.
Unfortunately the documentation doesn't mention how it's implemented (at least I couldn't find anything), but considering the steep pricing, you're probably right with your assumption.
Hopefully they'll be able to switch to Server Name Indication (SNI) in the near future as that would save a lot of IP addresses (and, if that's their biggest cost factor, allow them to lower the price). I think Windows XP is the biggest obstacle w.r.t. SNI, but thankfully XP will be EOL'd soon(ish).