AWS Content Delivery Services for Cloud and DevOps Engineers

In this post, we will cover the main Technologies from AWS Content Delivery Services.

AWS CloudFront -> It is a CDN that delivers data and applications globally with low latency.
- Makes content available globally or restricts it based on location
- Speeds up delivery of static and dynamic web content
- Uses edge locations to cache content
- If the content is already in the edge location, CloudFront delivers it immediately, and If not, CloudFront retrieves the files from the origin.
- AWS CloudFront in the Real World Scenarios:
  - S3 Static Website -> CloudFront is often used with S3 to deploy content globally.
  - Prevent Attacks -> CloudFront can stop certain web attacks, like DDoS. The DDoS topic will be covered later in the AWS Security post.
  - IP Address Blocking -> Geo-restriction prevents users in certain countries from accessing content.

AWS Global Accelerator -> It sends your users through the AWS global network when accessing your content, speeding up delivery.
- Improves latency and availability of single-Region applications
- Sends traffic through the AWS global network infrastructure
- 60% performance boost
- Automatically re-routes traffic to healthy available regional endpoints
AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration -> It improves content uploads and downloads to and from S3 buckets.
- Fast transfer of files over long distances
- Uses CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations
- Customers around the world can upload to a central bucket

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