Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) operated by Amazon Web Services. The content delivery network was created to provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers to cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, to improve access speed…

Key facts

First appeared: 2008
Category: cloud_infrastructure
Problem solved: Amazon CloudFront was created to solve the problem of high latency and slow content delivery for a globally distributed user base accessing content from centralized origin servers. By caching content at edge locations closer to users, it drastically reduces the time and distance data travels, offloads traffic from origin servers, and improves overall website/application performance and user experience.
Platforms: AWS Global Infrastructure, web

Related technologies

AWS WAF
AWS Route 53
Amazon EC2
AWS Shield
AWS Lambda@Edge
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Amazon S3
AWS Origin Shield
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

Notable users

Twitch
Slack
Expedia
Pinterest
Netflix