CloudFront And Its Features
Cloudfront is an AWS CDN service that delivers content, images, and videos with low latency and high transfer speed.
Features Of Cloudfront
- Stores static content at edge locations closer to users which reduces the latency and improves the overall performance.
- Restricts content access based on geographical location.
- Allows to add custom headers to requests and responses.
- Custom error pages based on different status code.
- Integrates with AWS WAF to provide additional security.
Customize responses in AWS Cloudfront
Imagine you have a website with good content like images, videos, and documents. Various users visit the website. However, users who live far away from the server will face latency in accessing the website content. High latency can hamper user experience. To solve this problem CDN comes into the picture.
CDN stands for content delivery network. It is a network of interconnected servers which speeds up the webpage loading. Website content is stored on the CDN servers which is geographically closer to the user and respond to user requests more quickly. Cloudfront is AWS’s own CDN service. CloudFront integrates with other AWS services and delivers content, images, and videos with low latency and high transfer speed.