If only Route53 allowed you to point the apex domain at Cloudfront (as I understand it, it's currently S3 or ELB).

You may not want to do so as:

  1) POST (and so are PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS and CONNECT) 
     are not yet supported on CloudFront.
  2) HTTPS/SSL for your own domain is not yet supported 
     on CloudFront.

@davidandgoliath you would think so. But a lot of companies ignore it.

You also seem to have ignored it in your post, any reason you didn't test cloudfront?

@davidandgoliath I work for MaxCDN so I would probably get fired. =P

So you post something that basically compares apples and oranges? Honestly, this post turns me off from MaxCDN.

Agreed. Especially if he was well aware that AWS offers a comparative service, but instead chose to compare to a different one.

Why would you get fired for covering an obvious and well-known CDN alternative in your blog post? Honestly interested :-)

Because it's not in his or his company's best interest? I bet that Cloudfront's performance isn't too different from MaxCDN's.