Unveiling CloudFront: Empowering DevOps Freshers to Supercharge Content Delivery
Let’s start off by looking at what a CDN is and why we use one? CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. It is a very large distribution of caching servers that are located around the world. It contains content that are stored in your origin servers and routes the viewers to the best location so that they can view the content that is stored in the cache. The content can be static (content that does not change)or dynamic (content that does change) in nature. CDN adds to the scalability and performance factor of applications. CloudFront is Amazon’s global content delivery network with massive capacity and scale. It is optimised for performance and scalability. Security features are also built in and you can configure them for optimal service. The user is in control of the service and can make changes on the fly. It includes real time reporting so that you can monitor the performance and make changes to the application or the way the CDN interfaces with your application. It has been optim