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What is CloudFront

A content delivery network (CDN)

works in 3 parts:

  • Edge Location
  • Origin
  • Distribution (name given to CDN which consists of a collection of edge locations)

First users asks for content from edge location then the edge location will go get file and server to user. Then any additional users get files from edge locations

Types of distributions

Web Distribution - Typically for Websites RTMP - Used for media streaming (CloudFront is discontinuing support for RTMP distributions on December 31, 2020. For more information, please read the announcement.)

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