Amazon CloudFront

wikipedia:Amazon_CloudFront (Nov 2008) CDN

• https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/

• AWS free tier: 1TB/month https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

• Distributions: aws cloudfront create-distribution
• CloudFront Functions (May 2021)
• Lambda@Edge (2017)
• Geo restriction (Dec 2013) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/18/amazon-cloudfront-adds-geo-restriction-feature/
• Dynamic content support (May 2012) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudfront-support-for-dynamic-content/
• CloudFront distribution

Related terms

• *.cloudfront.net domains
• HTTP headers
• AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
• Terraform CloudFront: aws_cloudfront_distribution
• Amazon CloudFront edge locations
• AWS Certificate Manager
• AWS WAF
• Amazon CloudFront Origin Shield
• Terraform module: cdn
• AWS Global Accelerator
• Amazon Edge Locations
• Signed URLs
• Collapsed Forwarding
• Origin access identities (OAI)
• OAC (prefered vs OAI)
• HTTP/3
• AWS Elemental MediaStore

Activities

• Read: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-cloudfront?tab=Votes
• Read CloudFront FAQs: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/faqs/
• Read https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/PrivateContent.html
• Read https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/migrate-ssl-cert-us-east/
• Read How do I use CloudFront to serve a static website hosted on Amazon S3?
• Read Using alternate domain names and HTTPS: CNAME
• Use HTTPS with CloudFront

News

• Nov 2024 - Introducing CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Origins: Shield your web applications from public internet (aws_cloudfront_vpc_origin)
• Server Timing in ClouFront https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/amazon-cloudfront-server-timing-headers/

See also

• aws cloudfront [ list-cloud-front-origin-access-identities | list-distributions | create-invalidation | create-distribution], AWS::CloudFront, AWS::CloudFront::Distribution, AWS::CloudFront::Distribution_Origin
• AWS CloudFront (aws cloudfront), distributions, Invalidations, Amazon CloudFront Ready, , CloudFront Functions, Lambda@Edge, Origin Shield, Signed URL, OAI, Origin Access Control (OAC), Amazon CloudFront edge locations, invalidations, CloudFront Security Savings Bundle (CFSSB), cloudfront.net
• CDN, Multi CDN: AWS CloudFront, Cloudflare, Azure Front Door az cdn, KeyCDN, Akamai, Gcore, Fastly, coin.host, EDNS Client Subnet, cache, Bunny.net, Wangsu

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