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Amazon CloudFront

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Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience [1]

  • Gives businesses and web application developers an easy and cost-effective way to distribute content with low latency and high data transfer speeds.

  • Amazon CloudFront supports content that can be sent using the HTTP or WebSocket protocols

Image Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

Use Cases

  • Deliver Fast secure websites -- Reach across the globe in milliseconds with built-in data compression, edge compute capabilities and field-level encryption

  • Accelerate Dynamic Content Delivery & APIs --

  • Stream live & on-demand video -- Load streams faster, play them with consistency and deliver high-quality video

  • Deliver patches and updates -- Scale automatically to deliver software, game patches, and IoT over-the-air (OTA) updates at scale with high transfer rates.

References

  1. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
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