Amazon Web Services

Amazon CloudFront

Definition

AWS's global CDN that distributes content (web, streaming, APIs) from more than 400 points of presence (PoPs) worldwide. It reduces latency by serving content from the node closest to the user.

Exam context

On CLF-C02 and SAA-C03 this is the solution for low global latency. It integrates natively with S3, ALB, and API Gateway. Question: how do you serve images from S3 with low latency globally? CloudFront + S3.

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