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Amazon CloudFront
A content delivery network that serves and can cache HTTP content at edge locations near viewers.
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What job does it solve?
Global HTTP delivery, edge caching, or origin shielding improves latency and resilience.
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Where does it stop?
The workload needs static anycast IP routing for non-cacheable TCP or UDP traffic.
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- Lesson 08Protect an application in layers
- Lesson 11Protect every encrypted connection—and plan renewal
- Lesson 16Match compute size and placement to the bottleneck
- Lesson 18Choose the right front door—and cache only safe data
- Lesson 23Database caching, invalidation, and source-of-truth boundaries
- Lesson 31Interactive edge, global, private, and hybrid placement
- Lesson 43Interactive network flow, edge delivery, and transfer-cost tracing
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