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Can I rely on a CDN to permanently store photos?

I'm working on a photo heavy site and don't have a lot of storage available at my hosting location.

If I use a CDN like CloudFront can I rely on them to permanently store the photos so I can delete them from my servers? Or should I first transfer them to a service like S3 for long term storage and then have the CDN pull from that location?

Are there any options?

Solution

  • I would personally never trust a CDN as a permanent data storage mechanism. The odds of a random purge happening for reasons beyond your control are very high.

    Using something like S3 sounds like a good solution.