
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C01) Certification Guide
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The primary service that enables the use of Amazon’s CDN is Amazon CloudFront. In this section, we will introduce CloudFront and its key components, explore its caching behaviors, and discuss methods for securing CloudFront distributions and origins.
Amazon CloudFront is a global service that can enhance the performance and delivery of static and dynamic content of internet-based applications. This content can be things such as web pages (and their contents), images, or media files. When end users access this content, it can be served directly from a location that is closest to them.
For example, assume Trailcats has a static web page containing a large repository of cats modeling their merchandise, which they want to make available to end users. Amazon CloudFront can service this web page. Users downloading these files in the United States (US) would use a US-based AWS data center to access the content, while users in Australia would use an Australia...