- Its a content Delivery Network(CDN).
- It Improves read performance, content is cached at the edge.
- 216 Point of Precesecne globally (edge locations).
- It DDos protection, integrations with Shield, AWS Web Application Firewall.
- Can Expose external HTTPS and can talk to internal HTTPS backends.
Cloud Front – Origins
- S3 Bucket
- For distributing files and caching them at the edge.
- Enhanced security with CloudFront Origin Access identity (OAI)
- CloudFront can be used as an ingress (to upload files to S3)
- Custom Origin(HTTP)
- It can be any HTTP end point like ALB(Applicatiion Load Balancer)
- It can be EC2 instance(Ec2 instance must be public)
- S3 static website.