Amazon CloudFront Description

Amazon CloudFront is a rapid content delivery network (CDN) service that efficiently distributes data, videos, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with minimal latency and high transfer speeds, all within a user-friendly framework for developers. This CDN is closely integrated with AWS, utilizing both physical sites connected to the AWS global infrastructure and various other AWS services. It operates in harmony with offerings like AWS Shield for DDoS protection, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, or Amazon EC2 as the source for your applications, and Lambda@Edge, which allows you to execute custom code nearer to the end-users to enhance their experience. Notably, if AWS origins like Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, or Elastic Load Balancing are utilized, there are no charges for data transferred between these services and CloudFront. Moreover, you can tailor the code executed at the CDN edge using serverless computing capabilities, ensuring an optimal blend of cost efficiency, performance, and security while delivering content. This flexibility makes CloudFront an excellent choice for developers aiming to create a responsive and secure content delivery experience.

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Year Founded:
1994
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United States
Website:
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CDN Provider

Content Acceleration
DDoS Protection
Load Balancing
Managed CDN
Multi-CDN Switching
Reporting/Analytics
Software Downloads
Transparent Caching
Video Streaming
Web Application Firewalls (WAF)

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Software Developer
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
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    Date: Aug 24 2020

    Summary: Amazon CloudFront is a CDN which can speed up your website or webapp performance by distributing data to multiple edge locations around the globe and serving the user from nearest location. It provides lots of advanced features and has a pay as you go model making it affordable even for small scale apps.

    Positive: Easy setup.
    Global network of servers - fast speeds and reliability.
    Highly configurable.
    Integrates well with other AWS services.
    Part of the free tier.
    Pay as you pricing model.

    Negative: Although i have not used support yet but the only con i found is that Customer support costs extra.

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