Amazon Cloud Front - CDN [Content Delivery Network]

Description: In this topic, I have explain What is CDN and How to implement it on AWS

What is CDN: Amazon Cloud Front is Content Delivery Network technology offered by AWS. It provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers which cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, thus improving access speed for downloading the content. CDN cache content to Edge network and distribute to end user from nearest network.

Implementation of CDN on AWS

• First create S3 URL with public access permission and upload video on Specific Region like Asia Pecific (Mumbai)
• Once S3 bucket created, Open content delievery network using URL https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/home

• Select a Web delivery method for your content

• Select your S3 bucket from web list and set your require parameters and click on create distribution

• It will take some time to create. Once it created you can made some changes in properties like Geo restriction to block any country, distribution, behavior and monitor URL access.