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Amazon CloudFront was introduced in 2008. It is a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers with low latency and high transfer speeds. CloudFront integrates with other AWS services, such as Amazon S3 and Elastic Load Balancing, to provide seamless workflows.

With features like edge caching and custom SSL, Amazon CloudFront enhances performance and security. Its integration with AWS Shield and AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) ensures protection against DDoS and other threats.

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Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service provided by AWS (Amazon Web Services). It accelerates the delivery of web content to users globally, improving the performance, scalability, and availability of websites and applications. With Amazon CloudFront, users can distribute their content across a network of edge locations worldwide, reducing latency and providing a better experience for end-users. It seamlessly integrates with other AWS services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and AWS Lambda, allowing users to cache and deliver dynamic and static content with ease.

Several alternatives to Amazon CloudFront exist across various cloud service providers:

• 1. Azure: Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• 2. GCP: Google Cloud CDN
• 3. IBM Cloud: IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
• 4. Oracle Cloud: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) CDN
• 5. Kubernetes: While not a traditional CDN service, Kubernetes can be used to deploy and manage caching and content delivery solutions within a containerized environment. However, it requires more manual configuration and management compared to dedicated CDN services.

Amazon CloudFront offers a wide range of features and benefits for users seeking to improve the delivery of their web content. It provides low-latency delivery of both static and dynamic content, with automatic scaling to handle varying traffic loads. Users can customize cache behaviors, set up SSL/TLS encryption, and protect their content using access controls and web application firewall (WAF) rules. Additionally, CloudFront integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, enabling users to leverage features such as Lambda@Edge for executing serverless functions at the edge locations, enhancing the capabilities of their CDN deployment.

Amazon CloudFront is commonly used for various use cases, including website acceleration, video streaming, software distribution, and secure and scalable delivery of APIs. Organizations across different industries rely on CloudFront to deliver their content to a global audience with high performance and reliability. Whether it's delivering live or on-demand video streams, distributing software updates efficiently, or providing secure access to APIs, Amazon CloudFront offers the flexibility and scalability needed to meet the demands of modern web applications and services. ```

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Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) operated by Amazon Web Services. The content delivery network was created to provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers to cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, to improve access speed for downloading the content.

CloudFront has servers located in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Australia, South America, Africa, and several major cities in the United States. In November 2022, the service operated from 400 edge locations on six continents.

CloudFront operates on a pay-as-you-go basis.

CloudFront competes with larger CDNs, such as Akamai, Azion, Cloudflare, and Edgio (previously known as Limelight Networks). Upon launch, Larry Dignan of ZDNet News stated that CloudFront could cause price and margin reductions for competing CDNs.

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