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Getting Started with Amazon CloudFront

Why Amazon CloudFront?

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates delivery of static and dynamic web content to end users.

CloudFront delivers content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. When an end user requests content that you’re serving with CloudFront, the request is routed to the edge location nearest to the end user with the lowest latency.

CloudFront delivers content by leveraging the AWS global network that connects AWS edge locations to AWS Regions. Moving the network traffic along the AWS global network reduces latency and improves your application's security posture. Increase the reliability and availability of your web applications by having copies of your files cached at multiple edge locations across the globe.

How to start using CloudFront in 3 steps

1

Log in to AWS to setup CloudFront

AWS Free Tier includes 1 TB data transfer out. 10,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS requests plus 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations each month.

2

Create a distribution

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution to tell CloudFront where you want content to be delivered from, and how to track and manage content delivery.

3

Start delivering content faster

Read Getting started with Amazon CloudFront to learn more about CloudFront distributions and use cases. Then, start building.

Amazon CloudFront Videos

In this section, you’ll find CloudFront videos to help you get started on your next project. You can learn more from the other customers on their CloudFront implementations and how CloudFront can support various workloads in different industry verticals.

Frequently Asked Questions