Amazon CloudFront and Other Amazon Web Services: Amazon CloudFront : CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website or application, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content, using a global network of edge locations. Amazon CloudFront works well with other Amazon Web Services. You can easily use an Amazon S3 bucket, an Amazon EC2 instance, an Amazon Elastic Load Balancing load balancer, or your own web server as the origin. In this tutorial, we will use Amazon S3 as the origin. Step 1: Prepare Your Content To deliver content to end users with a web distribution, you need to prepare content. Amazon CloudFront distributes many types of content, including images, videos, HTML pages, .css files, and .php files. In this step, we will upload sample content to the cloud using Amazon S3. a. The sample image we will use in this tutorial is a PNG image called cloudfront-test-image.png . Click the b...
Firstly start with CDN - CDN stands for content delivery network. It is used to deliver different type of data to end users like images,videos,applications and APIs. When you see a dynamic images using adobe flash on website. That's the use of CDN. It just stores the cached copy of contents and delivers it to end users for better speed. How it works? A CDN uses a network of servers in geographically dispersed locations(edge locations) to cache copies of content close to end user, lowering latency when thay download or stream the objects. When a specific page, file, or program is required by a user ,the server dynamically selected to deliver the content is based on closest network proximity or the one with the fewest network hops to the end user. Content is replicated across edge locations thereby providing redundancy. CDN Benefits Improves customer experiance with faster page loads - bounce rates go down and customers stay on your site longer . SEO benefits: site spee...