Content Delivery Services Review

Question 1

What are the Content Delivery services?

Answer 1

CloudFront
Global Accelerator
S3 Transfer Acceleration

Question 2

CloudFront

Answer 2

A CDN that delivers data and apps globally with low latency
Uses Edge locations
Uses DNS (I think)
static AND dynamic
Security: Shield (DDoS) and AWS WAF (Web App Firewall)

Question 3

Global Accelerator

Answer 3

Sends users thru the AWS global network to get content rather than public internet
Uses IP addresses (not DNS) = faster
Can route requests to: NLB, ALB, EC2 instance,elastic IP addr
Distance is minimized due to edge locations

Question 4

How is Global Accelerator different from Cloud Front?

Answer 4

Uses IP instead of DNS routing
Better fault tolerance b/c using IP’s is more instantaneous as IP’s are not cached
CloudFront uses Edge locations to cash content whereas Global Accelerator uses edge locations to find an optimal pathway

Question 5

When would you choose Global Accelerator?

Answer 5

When you have non-http protocol(VOIP, UDP (gaming/video), MQTT(IoT)
When you require a static IP address
When you need instantaneous failover

Question 6

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Answer 6

Improves content uploads and downloads to and from S3 buckets