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		eli on Jan 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How To: Hosting with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Rou... Why is it so expensive to add SSL with a custom domain to Amazon CloudFront? Because Amazon actually needs to acquire hundreds of individual certificates on your behalf and distribute them to its edge servers.

Kudos on Jan 13, 2014 [–]

No they don't, you provide them with a single cert and they use that on every edge node.

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