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Amazon web services – Are AWS lambda@edge costs in addition to cloudfront?

We have very high AWS cloudfront costs. It has been suggested that if some of our requests were served by lambda@edge, these costs could be reduced.

However, I am unsure if lambda@edge costs are in addition to cloudfront; For example:

Cloudfront costs: $1.20 per million
lambda@edge costs: $ 0.20 per million (plus duration costs).

On the face of it, lambda@edge could be cheaper than Cloudfront…. Unless we have to pay Cloudfront also.

Can anyone tell me if using lambda@edge also incurs Cloudfront costs or not?

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    Lambda@edge is in addition to CloudFront. The content is still served by CloudFront.

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    CoudFront Functions are useful when running small scripts that are closest to users. Lambda@Edge Functions are better suited for more complex code that requires access to external services or the Internet and Lambda@Edge counts a request each time it starts executing in response to an Amazon CloudFront event globally.Lambda@Edge is an extension of AWS Lambda, a compute service that lets you execute functions that customize the content that CloudFront delivers.

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