Technology Content Delivery

Question 1

Answer 1

Amazon Cloud Front

CDN that delivers data and applications globallly with low latency

• Makes content available globally or restricts it based on location
• Speeds up delivery of static and dynamic web content
• Uses edge locations to cache content

Question 2

Answer 2

Edge Locations

Mini DC where files are cached

Distribution Cache = Name given to the collection of edge locations

Question 3

Cloud Front Architecture

Answer 3

Question 4

CloudFront in the real world

Mention 3 use cases

Answer 4

1. S3 static websites.- CloudFront often used with S3 to deploy content globally
2. Prevent attacks.- Can stop certain web attacks, like DDoS.
3. IP address blocking.- Geo restriction prevents users in certain countries from accessing content

Question 5

Answer 5

Amazon Global Accelerator

Sends your users through the AWS global network when accessing your content, speeding up delivery

• Improves latency and availability of single Region applications
• Sends traffic through the AWS global network infrastructure
• 60% performance boost
• Automatically re reoutes traffic to healthy available regional endpoints

Question 6

Amazon S3 transfer acceleration

Answer 6

Improves content uploads and downloads to and from S3 buckets

• Fast transfer of files over long distances
• Uses CloudFront´s globally distributed edge locations
• Customers around the world can upload to a central bucket