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AWS-CloudFront-CDN-Overview
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| CloudFront CDN Overview | |
| - Content Delivery Network (CDN) | |
| - Consists of Distribution servers (network of Edge Locations) | |
| - Delivers content based on geographical location of user and the origin of the delivery server | |
| - Optimised to work with delivery of website, dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content | |
| - Simple Storage (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing, and Route53. | |
| - Can Also work with non-AWS origin server. | |
| Edge Location - Location where content will be cached that is separate to an AWS Region/Avalibility Zone (AZ) | |
| - Not for Just READ only, you can write to them too. | |
| - Objects are cached based on the TTL (Time To Live) | |
| - Can Clear Cached Objects, but you will be charged | |
| Origin - Origin of all files that the CDN will distribute. Can be S3 Bucket, EC2 Instanc, Elastic Load Balancer, or Route53 | |
| Distribution - CDN name for a collection of Edge Locations | |
| Web Distribution - Typically used for websites | |
| RTMP - sed for Media Streaming |
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