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Amazon CloudFront Architecture

Amazon CloudFront Architecture

Explore how Amazon CloudFront orchestrates content delivery using a strong AWS global infrastructure.

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Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) service, is crucial in improving content delivery from its source to end-users through smart caching mechanisms and a strong global network infrastructure. Exploring CloudFront’s architecture reveals an advanced system where content distribution, caching, and delivery are managed seamlessly globally. This understanding allows us to grasp how CloudFront efficiently delivers content, leading to better performance, reduced latency, and improved user experiences.

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Let’s explore the core components, key concepts, and configurations that form the backbone of CloudFront’s architecture, empowering users to optimize content delivery for their applications and websites. The core components of the CloudFront are described below:

Origins

Origins serve as the source locations for the content distributed through CloudFront. These can be:

  • Amazon S3 Buckets: Commonly used to store static website content, media files, and software downloads.

  • Custom Origins: External HTTP/HTTPS servers, Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), or any other web server.

Application Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer
S3 bucket
S3 bucket
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