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AWS Networking Cookbook

You're reading from   AWS Networking Cookbook Powerful recipes to overcome the pain points of optimizing your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123243
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Satyajit Das Satyajit Das
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Jhalak Modi Jhalak Modi
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Preface 1. Getting Started with AWS Networking Components 2. Building Your Own Custom VPC FREE CHAPTER 3. VPC Advanced Components 4. Configuring Global Scale Infrastructure 5. Working with Infrastructure Automation 6. Working with Route 53 7. Cloud Security and Network Compliance 8. Troubleshooting and VPC Limits 9. Pricing of VPC and Related Components

Setting up CloudFront--EC2 origin

CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) service provided by AWS. CloudFront offers a globally distributed network which serves cache content such as images, videos, and static files from distributed data centers called edge locations. The edge locations are points of presence (POP), which are owned and operated by CloudFront.

While a number of techniques can be used to mitigate DoS/DDoS attacks in the cloud, CloudFront is one of the best services that can manage large user requests while delivering good services to good customers. CloudFront absorbs DoS/DDoS flooding attacks.

There are two types of distribution that CloudFront provides:

  • Web distributions: Static and dynamic download content; for example, .html, .css, .php, and image files, using HTTP or HTTPS.
  • RTMP distributions: Stream media files using Adobe Media Server...
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