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AWS Hosting File Challenges

  • Signed URLs for cloudfront has no easy to limit access to specific domains.
  • WAF is required but not cost-effective for small-traffic apps and cloudflare has free plans.
  • Videos in S3 do not seem to support signed URLs.
  • Setting up and adding custom features in AWS is more complicated compared to services like Cloudflare.
  • Despite complexities, CloudFront offers excellent global performance.