Technology - Content Delivery

Question 1

What is a content delivery network?

Answer 1

A CDN is a mechanism to deliver content quickly and efficiently based on geographic location.

Question 2

What is Amazon CloudFront?

Answer 2

CloudFront is a CDN that delivers data and applications globally with low latency

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

Question 3

What which locations are ‘origin requests’ retrieved from?

Answer 3

S3 Bucket or
E2 Instance or
Elastic Load Balancer

Question 4

What is an Edge Location?

Answer 4

A mini data center where files are cached

Question 5

What is a Distribution Cache?

Answer 5

Name given to the collection of edge locations

Question 6

What is an ‘origin’?

Answer 6

An origin is the original source where files / content can be found.

Question 7

How is CloudFront used in the real-world?

Answer 7

1. S3 Static Websites
2. IP address blocking
3. Prevent Attacks

Question 8

What is Amazon Global Accelerator?

Answer 8

Global Accelerator sends your users through the AWS global network when accessing your content, speeding up delivery.

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