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As I said in my last post: S3 is NOT a CDN.  It is an amazing Simple Storage Service, not a Simple Delivery Service.  

Via AWS:

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Note: Throughput (higher is better): The numerical representation of how efficiently the system was able to retrieve the element in KBps. Throughput is calculated as (File Size + Header Size) / (1st Byte + Load Time).

Chart Summary

PostHaven MaxCDN

* The following metric name prefix SD, Avg, GM and Mdn stand for Standard Deviation, Average, Geometric Mean and Median respectively.

Take Away

Whether PostHaven goes with our CDN or with another provider, I just hope anyone reading this takes this away: Do not use S3 as a CDN, it is not designed for that.  You are wasting money and your users time.

Oh and have a great weekend everyone. =)