What is Amazon Cloudfront and How Does It Work?

What is AWS Cloudfront?

  • If the content is already cached in the edge location, CloudFront delivers it immediately with the lowest latency possible.
  • If the content is not present in the edge location, CloudFront retrieves it from the origin (like Amazon S3 bucket, a Media Package channel, or an HTTP server) that has been identified for your content.

How does Amazon CloudFront deliver content?

  1. When the origin servers such as the Amazon S3 bucket or an own HTTP server are specified, CloudFront gets the required files which are then distributed from CloudFront edge locations all over the world.
  2. Files are uploaded to the origin servers. The files also known as objects, typically include web pages, images, and media files. It can include anything that can be served over HTTP.
  3. The CloudFront distribution tells CloudFront which origins to get the files from when users request the files through the website or application. CloudFront also logs all the requests and distribution can be enabled as soon as it’s created.
  4. A domain is assigned to the new distribution that can be found in the CloudFront console or an alternate domain can be used instead.
  5. The distribution is sent across to all the edge locations or points of presence collections that are collections of servers in geographically dispersed data centers where CloudFront caches a copy of the data.

Best Way to Configure Amazon CloudFront is Next3 AWS

Benefits and Features of AWS CloudFront

Globally

Fast

Dynamic Transfer

AWS Integration


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