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CloudFront Exam Tips (dev)

  • CloudFront Origin: this is the origin of all the files that the distribution will serve. This can be a S3 bucket, a EC2 instance, an Elastic Load Balancer, or Route53
  • CloudFront Distribution: this is the name given to the Origin and configuration settings for the content you wish to distribute using CloudFront (CloudFront Delivery Network - CDN)
  • Edge Locations: this is the location where content is cached. It is not the same of AWS Region/AZ
  • S3 Transfer Accelleration: CloudFront Edge Locations are utilized by S3 to Transfer Accelleration to reduce latency for S3 uploads