Deliver Dynamic Content with Amazon CloudFront

Michael Garrity — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping businesses get more interactive by launching dynamic content support for Amazon CloudFront, giving customers a simple and cost-effective way to improve the performance, reliability and global reach of their sites and delivery of their content, including dynamic content that changes for every end-user.

AWS customers can accelerate all of the content on their websites, both dynamic and static, for a single price and no up-front fees.

The ability to deliver personalized, dynamic content through CloudFront saves businesses a lot of time and effort that used to go into improving the performance and reliability of the more dynamic aspects of their websites. Typically, this used to require custom codes that had to be written, and even then the solutions offered would be hard to configure and manage.

Now users can run all kinds of Web applications and accelerate their entire sites quickly through the AWS Management Console with no additional cost or architecture complexity. The experience even improves when dynamic content is delivered with origin servers running in EC2, as Amazon will monitor and streamline the network paths from each CloudFront edge location to the various AWS Regions, improving latency and reliability in the process.

Move to the Front of the Cloud

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:14:00 GMT

Amazon has unveiled a new web content delivery service named Amazon CloudFront.

The service could prove useful in improving the performance of a website by giving developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments - the same as the benefits of using a content delivery network (CDN).

Amazon CloudFront delivers content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for objects (files) are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. Using a content delivery network results in low latency and higher data transfer speeds overall, but only until recently has such an opportunity been available on such a scale.

CloudFront works with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store the original, definitive versions of your files. Like other Amazon Web Services, there are no contracts or monthly commitments for using Amazon CloudFront. Users pay for as much or as little content as is actually delivered through the service.

Amazon has even made an Amazon CloudFront manager available. The application will come in handy for S3 users as they upload files to to the AS3 network and sitribute them through CloudFront. Pricing (seen below) seems reasonable.

Data Transfer
$0.170 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.120 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.100 per GB – next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.090 per GB – data transfer out / month over 150 TB

Requests
$0.010 per 10,000 GET requests

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Deliver Dynamic Content with Amazon CloudFront

Move to the Front of the Cloud