In the space of internet the ability for your platform to scale and adapt to visibility, entails a number of considerations, from the test face, consumer surveys and in the architecting phase.
Application delivery to the clients over the internet with the latest information is pivotal in the credibility, vision alignment and future growth in its adoption by new users.
AWS cloudFront provides a solution for you when implementing the AWS platform.
CloudFront is a web service with speed to deliver both static and Dynamic web content to clients over the internet. It leverages Edge locations to provide low latency in delivering content to the consumer. CloudFront is a service that integrates with other AWS tools.
It comes with two types of distributions
standard, designed for unique configuration per website or application, you need a standalone CloudFront distribution, each site or application requires its own custom settings.
Multi-tenant distribution and distribution tenants(CloudFront SaaS Manager) they are designed specifically for SaaS and multi-tenant scenarios. Their use cases
A SaaS platform to serve multiple customer websites and applications, to use this option, also when one needs to manage similar distributions efficiently and also want a centralized control over shared configurations.
CloudFront provides you with the ability to, serve videos on demand and live streaming. In the case of video on demand the media needs to be encoded and package, AWS has a tool that makes it possible AWS Elemental MediaConvert to know more about visit this link . One can use a server or Amazon S3 and link it with cloudfront. When offering livestreaming an extra step is taken after encoding by compressing and formatting the videos to device of choice.
In a case where private content needs to be served CloudFront uses lambda@edge. This is made possible by assigning cookies or through Signed URLs. You can either use an Amazon S3 through the use of an origin access control, for a breakdown on how to go about it visit There is also the use of custom origins which has a variety of ways one is the use of CloudFront managed prefix list . Another is by Serving Private Content Using Amazon CloudFront & Lambda@Edge
CloudFront enhances encryption of data like in the case HTTPS is already in place. It offers a use field-level encryption on top of the secured end to end connection by HTTPS. for an extensive study visit .
conclusion
CloudFront is not just an extension to the visibility of information over the internet, it is a tool that can be utilized to customize how, from and to where it needed to be delivered to. For the tools breakdown and extensive documentation visit . Thank you and enjoy your journey in AWS cloud service.
This article is published by: Sospeter Mchiri
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