AWS Cloud Tech Info

CloudFront  is a  CDN (Content Delivery Network) . It retrieves data from Amazon S3 bucket and distributes it to multiple datacenter locations. It delivers the data through a network of data centers called  edge locations . The nearest edge location is routed when the user requests for data, resulting in lowest latency, low network traffic, fast access to data, etc. How AWS CloudFront Delivers the Content? AWS CloudFront delivers the content in the following steps. Step 1  − The user accesses a website and requests an object to download like an image file. Step 2  − DNS routes your request to the nearest CloudFront edge location to serve the user request. Step 3  − At edge location, CloudFront checks its cache for the requested files. If found, then returns it to the user otherwise does the following − First CloudFront compares the request with the specifications and forwards it to the applicable origin server for the corresponding file type. The origin ser...