mazon CloudFront is a fast and secure content delivery network (CDN) service that ensures your data, applications, videos, and APIs are delivered to your users globally with low latency and high transfer speeds. This CDN service is fully integrated within AWS's secure, reliable, and scalable ecosystem, making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking efficient, cost-effective, and developer-friendly content distribution solutions.
Global Scaled Network for Fast Content Delivery
Amazon CloudFront provides a high-speed, globally distributed network. With more than 225 points of presence (PoPs) linked via the private AWS backbone, CloudFront ensures ultra-low latency and high availability to your end users. This robust network employs intelligent routing and a multi-tiered caching architecture to ensure optimal performance and secure data delivery.
Security at the Edge
Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure CDN that defends your data at both the network and application levels. All CloudFront distributions are protected by default against the most common network and transport layer DDoS attacks. Additional protection is available by integrating CloudFront with AWS Shield Advanced and AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF). CloudFront also meets the highest security compliance standards, including PCI DSS, ISO/IEC, SOC 1/2/3, FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, and more.
Highly Programmable and Secure Edge Computing
With AWS Lambda@Edge, CloudFront allows for programmable and secure edge CDN computing capabilities. It enables customization of application logic at the edge for operations like dynamic origin load-balancing, custom bot-management, or serverless origin creation. This lets your application logic run closer to your end users for improved responsiveness while also offering advanced security to protect your data from threats such as Spectre and Meltdown.
Deep Integration with AWS
Amazon CloudFront offers seamless integration with AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Route 53, and AWS Elemental Media Services. This allows for an easy setup process using the AWS management console or developer tools like CloudFormation templates and the AWS Cloud Development Kit. Plus, CloudFront’s integration with Amazon Cloudwatch and Kinesis offers real-time metrics and logs for better observability.
