We are excited to announce that starting May 1, 2014, the AWS Free Usage Tier benefits will include Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery web service. Free-tier eligible customers can now try Amazon CloudFront at no additional cost. The free tier for Amazon CloudFront includes up to 50 GB data transfer and 2,000,000 requests per month aggregated across all AWS edge locations. Please visit the AWS Free Usage Tier page for more information.

Getting started with Amazon CloudFront is easy. To learn more, visit the Amazon CloudFront detail page and the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide. You can also join technical experts from Amazon CloudFront for an interactive “Office Hours” session on May 27th, 2014 from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST. These online sessions enable a technical audience to interact directly with our engineers in the form of a live Q&A. Register for Amazon CloudFront Office Hours here.