How can I limit CloudFront downloads

Posted by Alex Crouzen on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Alex Crouzen
Published on 2010-05-27T13:23:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 13:33 UTC
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I'm looking to use Amazon's CloudFront to host some content in the near future. Currently, I'm keeping it very simple and I'm just uploading my content to S3 and then making a distribution available via Cloudfront.

However, because I have a limited budget, I'd like to be able to limit the number of downloads or the money spent on bandwidth. As far as I can see, I can't set any quotas or budgets like you can in Google's App Engine, so I'm looking for another way of doing this.

Has anyone had any experience doing this? One approach I'm thinking of is having to place a webserver with redirects in between, but that kind of defeats the simplicity of CF for me.

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