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Amazon’s CDN service has just hit beta. You can try out Amazon’s Cloudfront without any minimum contract just pay for what you use just like their other services. Couldfront speeds up delivery of files to your users by caching your files in multiple locations closest to them (the caveat being their current servers are based in US and Europe). Update: From Amazon Web Services’ blog: Requests originating anywhere in the world will be routed to one of 14 edge locations (8 in the United States, 4 in Europe, and 2 in Asia)

From the CloudFront site:

To use Amazon CloudFront, you:

• Store the original versions of your files in an Amazon S3 bucket.

• Create a distribution to register that bucket with Amazon CloudFront through a simple API call.

• Use your distribution’s domain name in your web pages or application. When end users request an object using this domain name, they are automatically routed to the nearest edge location for high performance delivery of your content.

• Pay only for the data transfer and requests that you actually use.

You can access the CDN either with your custom domain or using the cloud front URL which looks like: xyz.cloudfront.net . Monthly bandwidth prices start from 17 cents / GB for the first 10 Terrabytes down to 9 cents/GB for traffic above 150TB

Read more and signup at: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

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