Understanding the Amazon CDN
The Amazon CDN is called Amazon CloudFront (CF). It is a global delivery service that leverages edge locations to securely deliver content with low latency and high speed. CF is integrated with AWS cloud services, and has the following features:
- It is a global network of edge locations that cache and deliver content (such as web pages, videos, and software downloads) to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
- It can be used to distribute both static and dynamic content from AWS and non-AWS origin servers, such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and on-premises servers.
- It offers features such as content compression, SSL/TLS encryption, and custom domain names, which help improve the security, reliability, and performance of applications.
- It has a pay-as-you-go pricing model, with no upfront costs or minimum fees. The cost is based on the amount of data transferred, the number of requests made, and the edge locations used.
More details about Amazon CF can be found at https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/.
