CloudFront Flashcards
CDN
Content Delivery Network - edge locations, reduced latency, traffic serves from the closest nodes
Edge locations
content will be cached (over 50), different from region / AZ. TTL (speed of image // media is quicker - first user suffers the performance), can be not only read only (you can write it)
Origin can be - S3, EC2, ELB, Route53 also NON AWS origin server ,
Distribution
name given to the CDN consist of collection of Edge locations(1) Web Distribution -
(2) RTMP (media streaming / flash) Distribution - for Adobe flash files only
you can have multiple origins of a distribution
Path Pattern (*)
Restrict viewer access by signed URL or Signed Cookies
Restrict content based on geo location (whitelist and blacklist)
Create invalidate - invalidate TTL (you pay for it) like purge in Akamai