Amazon CloudFront
by Amazon Web Services · Source: Official website
Content delivery network integrated with AWS services.
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About Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is the content delivery network of Amazon Web Services. It caches and serves websites, APIs, live and on-demand video and large software downloads from more than 750 points of presence, with support for WebSockets and gRPC. Traffic is encrypted, AWS Shield Standard DDoS protection is included, private VPC origins are supported, and custom code can run at the edge to adjust requests and responses.
Features
- Global edge network
- Edge functions
- TLS certificates
- DDoS protection
- Origin shield
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