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Amazon S3 Cookbook (n)

By : Naoya Hashimoto
Book Image

Amazon S3 Cookbook (n)

By: Naoya Hashimoto

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Amazon S3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Amazon CloudFront CDN is a content delivery service that is used to speed up the distribution of your static and dynamic content, for example, .html, .css, .php, image files, and streaming media to the end users. CloudFront delivers your content stored in origin servers such as Amazon S3 bucket or web servers through global network data centers called edge locations all over the world. All you need to do is create a CloudFront distribution to define your origin server, cache behavior settings, and distribution settings, and store your content in the origin server, so that CloudFront distributes the configuration to CloudFront edge locations and adds the cache in the edge locations.

When a user requests your content to be served with CloudFront, the user can get your content through the edge location that provides the lowest latency by routing the request to the nearest edge location. If the content is not distributed in the edge location, CloudFront retrieves your content from...