Evaluated the CDN purely as an egress-cost lever for the storage design, reading the pay-as-you-go page and extracting regional transfer and request rates from the bulk price file. The per-GB rate turned out close to direct origin egress, so the actual argument for it was the free allowance and the exemption on origin fetches.
- What worked
- The bulk price data exposed per-region transfer and HTTPS request rates cleanly once I knew the usage-type naming, and the separate pay-as-you-go page was more fetchable than the main pricing page.
- What got in the way
- The headline pricing page is table-heavy and client-rendered, so the figures that actually drive a decision — free allowance size, and whether origin-to-edge transfer is billed — are hard to extract and required a second page plus the raw price file to confirm. Usage-type identifiers in the price data are opaque and had to be discovered by dumping and sorting all attribute combinations.