[ldoughty]

From a cloud perspective, it's easier (by a tiny bit of work) to point a subdomain to a service over pointing a folder.

E.g. blog.example.com pointing to a static website while project.example.com points to a server.

If you want both to be under the same domain and use a CDN for only one of them, you still have to configure the pass through of all others... But if it's only one subdomain, CloudFront no longer needs to know about non-Cloudfront endpoints.

I run my Hugo site on S3+CloudFront for a be penny a month (if that), despite also having a $5/month server... It protects my site from going down if one if the 5 WP sites I lazily host for friends gets directly attacked and someone pops a shell + container break out.