Cutting a Client's CloudFront Bill by ~91% with AWS's New Flat-Rate Plans

A client came to us in shock over their CloudFront bill — $2,300/month during their peak sales period. Here’s how we got it down to $200/month. AWS built an entire new pricing plan just to admit the old one was robbery. A client reached out to us after opening their AWS invoice during their busiest sales month of the year and seeing CloudFront alone hit ~$2,300/month, with the vast majority of that coming from data transfer out to their customers. They weren’t looking for a full re-architecture — they just wanted to know: is this normal, and can anything be done about it?