Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Amazon CloudFront
What is CDN?
CDN services are distributed through different global nodes, which can give content owners and publishers the ability to rapidly scale to meet increasing user demand all over the world on multiple devices and on different platforms.
Amazon CloudFront
CloudFront is Amazon’s global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates the delivery of websites, APIs, video content, and other web assets, enabling low latency and high transfer speeds. By using Amazon CloudFront, the content owner can focus their time and resources on their core product and services, not infrastructure.
Features
Fast & Global
CloudFront network provides 200 points of presence (PoPs), which can leverages the highly-resilient network for performance and availability for your business.
Cost-Effective
Amazon CloudFront offers benefits such as pay-as-you-go pricing, you only pay for the content you deliver through the network without additional fees.
Security
CloudFront is built using Amazon’s highly reliable, safe, and secure global infrastructure. It provides both network and application level protection such as AWS Shield Standard for DDoS mitigation.
Elastic
The service automatically adjust the capacity in response to demand without any intervention form you.
Use Case
Media: Delivering Streamed media files with speed and scale
eCommerce: Accelerate Website Delivery & Enhance Security
