- Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service.
- Improves access speed for accessing/downloading content by caching content more locally to consumers.
- Useful for S3 Transfer Acceleration.
- Designed to work with S3, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).
- Access can be restricted with Origin Access Identity (OAI) - OAI allows you to manage access to your S3 content on a per-user or per-group basis, reducing the risk of hotlinking and unintended access to sensitive content.
- Can be accessed via Signed Cloud Front URL or Signed Cookies.
Key Terms:
- Time To Live (TTL) : The amount of time the cache is stored before refresh, Maximum - 1 Day
- Edge Location: Location near to consumer.