Friday 19 April 2013

How To SetUp AWS CloudFront

 Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network (CDN)

A dynamic content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network.

A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottleneck near that server. A cdn will increase speed and efficiency for your WebSite.

CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, for example, .html, .css, .php, and image files, to end users. CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations. 


When an end user requests content that you're serving with CloudFront, the user is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency,  so content is delivered with the best possible performance.

If the content is already in that edge location, CloudFront delivers it immediately. If the content is not currently in that edge location, CloudFront retrieves it from an Amazon S3 bucket or an HTTP server (for example, a web server) that you have identified as the source for the definitive version of your content.


Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency,
  high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.
 
It will distribute all requests coming to server into cloud and manages the load, and requests connecting to server are only for DB connections. all other requests will distribute among cloud thus manages the load.

This includes data transferred from Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 to any Amazon CloudFront edge location.

Some people have begun utilizing S3 to host files for their website that would otherwise be expensive in andwidth costs to serve from their own server.

Enter Amazon CloudFront. CloudFront is a CDN, or Content Delivery Network. It utilizes Amazon S3 but distributes your data out to multiple datacenter locations, ensuring faster access times through low latency file hosting for your website users.
   
There are small downsides to CloudFront compared to expensive CDN solutions. For one, it takes some time (up to 24 hours) for file changes and updates to be pushed out to CloudFront edge servers.
   
It makes it easier for you to distribute content to end users quickly, with low latency and high data transfer speeds. Amazon CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations. 


End users are routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.  
Amazon CloudFront works seamlessly with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which durably stores the original, definitive versions of your files.

 Manage Amazon CloudFront through an easy to use interface. The AWS Management Console lets you review all your CloudFront distributions, create new distributions, or edit existing ones.

 All the features of the CloudFront API are supported: you can enable or disable distributions, configure CNAMEs, enable end-user logging, and more.


2 comments:

  1. Great info! Cloud has a variety of dimensions. We have only scratched the surface of cloud's many potential functions. I use it as a Back Up & Recovery tool.

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