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...
