ClearTech Loop Special Edition: Rethinking CDN Pricing with AWS CloudFront

Cloud pricing can look simple until the bill arrives. 

In this ClearTech Loop Special Edition, Jo Peterson talks with Cristian Graziano, Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services, about AWS CloudFront flat rate plans and why predictable pricing matters for teams delivering internet facing applications. 

Cristian explains how CloudFront helps accelerate and secure applications, why customers often combine CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, logging, and monitoring, and how flat rate plans are designed to make that model easier to understand, approve, and manage. 

In this episode 

Jo and Cristian discuss: 

• What AWS CloudFront does  
• Why CDN pricing can get complicated  
• How CloudFront flat rate plans simplify pricing  
• Why predictable monthly costs matter for developers, business units, SMBs, and enterprise teams  
• How AWS is making security part of the starting point  
• Why WAF, DDoS protection, bot controls, and security visibility matter for internet facing applications  

Featured quote 

“Security is included by default.” Cristian Graziano, Principal Product Manager, AWS 

About the guest 

Cristian Graziano is a Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. His work focuses on the customer experience for AWS CloudFront, including onboarding, console experience, and pricing. 

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