Do you have content that you need to distribute to your website visitors quickly and conveniently? In the past there have been services like Akamai and Connexion as only way to get content close to the end user for quick loading in their browsers, now there is a lower cost alternative.

The problem with traditional content distribution networks is that they require a contract for a huge number of hits, if the total value of contract is not in multiples of thousands of dollars, these distributors are not interested. So what is a small/medium sized business to do?.

Use Amazon's Cloudfront service. This service lets you use Amazon's distribution network to get the content close to the end user and you only pay based on how much of the service you use. There is no minimum commitment level, simply pay as you go.

Using this service you can distribute large video/graphics files closer to end users around the globe and save the bandwidth usage of your internet connection at the same time. Amazon fee's are very nominal, starting at 17 cents per GB for the first 10TB and going down from there.

This service allows for even the smallest of companies to distribute their content via high speed content delivery system that very recently was only available to large fortune 500 enterprise.