What is Amazon Cloudfront and how does AWS CloudFront works?

Due to its high price and complex IT architecture, owning a content delivery network used to be exceedingly uncommon for businesses.

But now that AWS CloudFront has enabled consumers to request data, there is less network traffic, low latency, and instant access to data at a low cost. making it an extremely well-liked network.

What is AWS CloudFront?

AWS CloudFront is a widely dispersed network provided by Amazon Web Services that safely and quickly distributes content to clients, such as software, SDKs, videos, etc.

Through a global network of data centers referred to as edge locations, CloudFront distributes your content. In order to serve content with the optimal performance, a user’s request for content that you are providing with CloudFront is routed to the edge location that has the lowest latency (time delay).

How Does AWS CloudFront Work?

The following steps explain how CloudFront delivers the content:

Step 1

The client accesses a website and requests to download a file (like image file).

Step 2

Now, the DNS routes the client request to the nearest edge location through CloudFront to serve the user request.

Step 3

At edge location, CloudFront looks for its requested cache file. Once the file is found, CloudFront sends the file to the user.

Step 4

But, if the file is not found then CloudFront compares the requirements with the specifications and shares it with the respective server.

Step 5

The web server responds to the request by sending the files back to the CloudFront edge location.

Step 6:

As soon CloudFront receives the file, it shares it with the client and adds the file to the edge location.

Benefits of AWS CloudFront

• It will cache your content in edge locations and decrease the workload, thus resulting in high availability of applications.
• It is simple to use and ensures productivity enhancement.
• It 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.

Amazon CloudFront Delivers Private Media Exceptionally Quickly

Selling digital products using WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads? You might want to keep members-only films and other content hidden if you run a membership website. You may use Next3 to set up Amazon CloudFront so that it serves part of the contents in your bucket to the general public while safeguarding and serving other files to users who are logged in only.