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AWS CloudFront

  • Content Delivery Network
  • Content is cached at various edge locations.

Origins (backend it can be connected with)​

  • S3 Bucket
  • VPC Origin
    • Load balancers / EC2 Instances
  • Custom Origin
    • Static S3 website
    • Public HTTP backend

VPC Origins​

Geo Restriction​

  • Allowlist
  • Blocklist

Pricing​

  • Cost of data out per edge location varies.

Price Classes​

  • Price Class All: all regions
  • Price Class 200: most regions, excludes the most expensive regions
  • Price Class 100: only least expensive regions.

Cache Invalidation​

  • Can enforce an entire or partial cache refresh by performing CloudFront Invalidation.
  • Can invalidate all files or a special path.