CloudFront vs bunny.net at 50 TB/mo: the real monthly cost
TL;DR — Move it. At 50 TB/mo, CloudFront runs about $4,060/month; bunny.net comes to about $562/month — and that includes the time to manage it. That's a 86% lower 5-year total cost and break-even in 0 months, so the numbers clearly favour switching at this scale.
The monthly bill, side by side
| Line | CloudFront (AWS) | bunny.net |
|---|---|---|
| Egress (50 TB/mo) | $4,060 | $512 |
| Ops / management | included | $50 |
| Monthly total | $4,060 | $562 |
Ops isn't zero, but it's light. bunny.net is still a managed service — the $50/month above is config and monitoring time, not running a cluster. The saving here comes almost entirely from egress that bunny.net doesn't meter the way AWS does.
Break-even & 5-year total cost
Moving costs a one-time $1,000 (data transfer + cutover). At $3,498/month saved, that pays back in 0 months.
| 5-year total cost (incl. ops + migration) | CloudFront | bunny.net |
|---|---|---|
| Over 60 months | $243,610 | $34,720 |
| Difference | $208,890 lower (86%) on bunny.net | |
The assumptions (so the numbers are honest)
- Transfer-only — this is a CDN delivery comparison at 50 TB/mo; origin storage and per-request fees sit outside it on both sides.
- AWS egress is the tiered rate from the egress breakdown ($4,060 at this size); storage at S3 Standard ~$0.023/GB-mo.
- bunny.net is priced from its public rate card; ops labor is priced in, never assumed free.
- Vendor list prices (storage, egress) are confirmed against current rate cards as of 2026-06-26; ops labor & migration are modelled. Your mix of request rates, regions and redundancy will move them — that's what an Assessment nails down.
When to keep CloudFront instead
- Low egress — if you serve a few hundred GB a month, the bill is small and a migration won't pay for itself.
- Deep in-region integration — data consumed by other AWS services in-region isn't paying internet egress; fix it with a free VPC endpoint, not a move.
- Spiky, unpredictable traffic that genuinely benefits from scale-to-zero and global presence.
Related
- What 50 TB/mo of CloudFront egress costs — the egress line on its own.
- CloudFront egress, every scale — the full by-size breakdown.
Sources
- AWS CloudFront pricing — US/Europe tiers and the perpetual 1 TB/mo free tier — aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
- bunny.net CDN pricing — roughly $0.005–0.01/GB on the volume network — bunny.net/pricing/