AMAZON WEB SERVICE(AWS)-CLOUDFRONT(CF)

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                                      AMAZON WEB SERVICE(AWS)-CLOUDFRONT(CF)


Amazon CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, such as . html, . css, . js, and image files, to your users. Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network(CDN) operated by Amazon Web Services. Content delivery networks provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers that cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, thus improving access speed for downloading the content. CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations.CloudFront speeds up the distribution of your content by routing each user request through the AWS backbone network to the edge location that can best serve your content. Typically, this is a CloudFront edge server that provides the fastest delivery to the viewer.

Some of the components of CloudFront are enlisted below:-

  • Distributions. Distributions is the instantiation of CloudFront. ...
  • Origins. ...
  • Behaviors. ...
  • Restrictions, Errors and Tags. ...
  • AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)

.Amazon CloudFront is a fast Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. Cloudfront provides high security with the 'Content Privacy' feature. It facilitates GEO targeting service for content delivery to specific end-users. It uses HTTP or HTTPS protocols for quick delivery of content. It is less expensive, as it only charges for the data transfer.



            DIAGRAM:-CLOUDFRONT OVERVIEW



                                 AWS CLOUDFRONT:-OVERVIEW

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