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CloudFront - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers
CloudFront
- [Instructor] Another type of data storage that helps with caching and performance is to use a content delivery network. In AWS, that's called CloudFront. So I'm going to type in cloudfront in the search bar and create a CloudFront distribution. This will distribute files across nodes all over the country or the world and allow them to be accessed more quickly from the nodes that's closest to the user. If the file isn't there, it'll go to the origin, which is going to be, in this case, an S3 bucket. So I need to put a file in an S3 bucket. So I'm going to go to S3, and I'm going to pick one of my buckets. I'll use the bucket I created earlier, mybucket.brainwashinc.com. I'm going to create a folder called Files, and underneath that I'm going to upload a file that I've provided in the exercise files. So when you click Upload, you can click Add files, and drill down to 05_05, open that, and upload it. If I go back to…
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