Amazon CloudFronts salient features and its key of presence
Posted By : Oodles Admin | 17-Dec-2015
In 2008, product launched by Amazon Web Services, Amazon CloudFront is a Content Delivery web service offering pay-as-you-go services. Amazon CloudFront offers an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds and no usage limitations.
Amazon CloudFront is Simple, Fast, Reliable, Elastic and Cost-effective designed for use with other Amazon Web Services.
Locations:
The service operates from 52 edge locations on five continents.
CloudFront has servers located in Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain)
Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan and India) and Australia
Along with South America, Cloudfront is encountered in several major cities in the United States.
Salient Features:
Popular features
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Management Console with Dynamic Content
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Support for POST/PUT and other HTTP Methods
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Invalidation and Custom SSL
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Wildcard CNAME Support
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Zone Apex Support
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Custom Error Responses
Reporting:
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Cache Statistics Reports, Popular Objects Reports and Top Referrer Report
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Monitoring & Alarming via Amazon CloudWatch
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Amazon CloudFront Usage Charts
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View Reports and Access Logs
Security
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Private Content with Geo Restrictions
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HTTP to HTTPS Redirect at the Edge
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Advanced Secure Security Layer (SSL) Features
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Log API calls on CloudTrail
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PCI DSS
Streaming
Amazon Web Services can be used to stream the media(Audio/Video) content across the globe. CloudFront offers smooth HLS streaming and RTMP streaming.
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Support for On-demand Microsoft Smooth Streaming
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Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront using Adobe Media Server 5.0
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Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront Using Windows Media Services
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Live Streaming with Wowza
Pricing
CloudFront by Amazon offers “Pay only for what you use” feature and AWS free usage tier which allows to use the services for free. AWS also offers On-Demand Pricing which has regional data transfer out to internet.
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Free Tier
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Reserved Capacity Pricing
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Price Classes
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On-Demand Pricing
Dynamic & Customized Content
Offers a global reach to the static as well dynamic content of the website. Without any additional charges, CloudFront serves the dynamic content.
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Amazon CloudFront Supports Dynamic Content
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Low TTLs
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Support for Cookies and Query Strings
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Device Detection with Geo Targeting
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Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
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Forward Headers to Origin
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Oodles Admin
Divya has more than 6 years of industrial experience in different domains – SAP EP, Search Quality Operations and Content Writing. She loves travelling across the world and also enjoys watching movies.