CloudFront Flashcards
1
Q
What is CloudFront?
A
It’s Amazon’s CDN
2
Q
Where is Amazon’s content cached?
A
In Edge Locations
3
Q
What’s an Edge Location?
A
It’s Amazons Content Delivery Network
4
Q
What is Origin?
A
Its the origin of all files that the CDN will distribute
5
Q
What is a Distribution
A
Its a collection of Edge Locations
6
Q
What is TTL (time to live)?
A
It’s the length of time a file is cached on Amazon’s Edge Location
7
Q
What the default TTL?
A
86400 seconds (24h)
8
Q
Name the two types of CloudFront and what they’re used for
A
Web Distribution => Used for Websites
RTMP => Used to media streaming (ex: flash)
