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Fastest CDN for image serving to help Apache

I'm trying to take some load off my Apache Server.

Is Amazon S3 with expiry headers set for a long expiry, like a week, just as good as Amazon Cloudfront for static content serving ?

Or are other CDNs better ? Thanks.
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If you use S3 already then Cloudfront is really simple to set up - create a distribution with a directory in S3 and use its generated cloudfront.net hostname for your media serving. You'll get decent reliability from using S3 directly but there's little point when Cloudfront just plugs in and will give you higher performance and more reliability.

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