Introduction to

Amazon CloudFront

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Amazon CloudFront: Content Delivery Network

• Full Feature Caching Network

• Global Infrastructure

• Tuned for Optimal Performance

• Massively Scalable

• Highly Secure

• Robust Analytics

• Self Service

• Priced to Minimize Cost

Content Delivery for any Market Segment

• Media and Entertainment

• Gaming

• eCommerce

• Digital Advertising

• Software Downloads

• Dynamic Websites and Applications

What You Look for in a CDN

• Performance: deliver content with low latency and high availability

• Reach and Functionality: provide global network of edge locations to optimally reach a wide audience

• Cost: ensure financial feasibility for scalable bit delivery

Popular CloudFront Features

Video StreamingOn-demand & Live Streaming

RTMP (Flash) and HTTP(S)

Adaptive Bitrate Live Streaming

Microsoft Smooth Streaming

Whole Site DeliveryStatic & Dynamic Content

Mobile Detect, CORS Support

Multiple Cache Behaviors

Multiple Origin Servers

SecurityPrivate Content (Signed URLs /

Cookies)

Custom SSL (Dedicated IP & SNI)

Geo Restriction

HTTP to HTTPS Redirect

High Availability99.9% SLA

Automatic Origin Failover

Custom Error Pages

Serve Stale Content when Origin unavailable

High PerformanceLatency Based Routing

TCP Optimization

Persistent Connections

EDNS Client Subnet

Low TCOPay for use

Commit-Based lower pricing

Price Classes

Preferential Pricing for AWS origins

Performance: Industry Leading Latency and Availability

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99.45 99.44

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99.05

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99.15

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99.35

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99.45

99.5

99.55

Japan Availability*

*Data from Cedexis, Last 30 Days, ending 02/16/15

99.54 99.54

99.53

99.5 99.5

99.48

99.49

99.5

99.51

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99.54

99.55

Korea Availability*

CloudFront Top Tier Performance

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Global Response Time (ms)

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25th Percentile

75th Percentile

*Data from Cedexis, Last 24 hrs, Response Time Measure over All Cedexis Regions. 06/24/14

Performance: Dynamic Site Acceleration

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DSA Cloudfront DSA Origin

DSA Performance (ms)

10th Percentile

95th Percentile

25th Percentile

75th Percentile

*Data from Cedexis, Last 5 Days, DSA Time Measure of the Ireland. 01/16/2014

Reach: CloudFront Global Content Delivery Network

North America South America EMEA APAC

Super POPs

Cities

Countries

Continents

AWS Region CloudFront Edge Location

CloudFront Pricing: Competitive, Flexible Options

• On-demand, pay for use

elastic pricing

• Same pricing for Static and

Dynamic Content

• Usage Commitment Options

• GB delivery model

• No Platform Fees

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Data Transfer

Data Transfer Economies of Scale

Public Rates Private Rates

CloudFront Reference Customers: M&E

Delivery for Any Use Case

Media and Entertainment

Download• progressive

download

• static sites

• applications

• A/V players

Video on Demand• Internet TV

• OTT

• Web

• Mobile

LIVE Events• music

• sports

• gaming

• news

• corporate

Publishing• dynamic site

• whole site

• news, weather, etc

CloudFront Features: Media and Entertainment

Video Streaming

• RTMP (Flash) and HTTP(S) delivery

• Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (HLS, HDS, Smooth, MPEG-DASH)

Security

• Private Content

• SSL, TLS/SNI Support

• Advanced SSL (perfect forwarding, OCSP stapling, session tickets)

• Geo Restriction

Content Management

• AWS Management Console

• Full control via APIs

• Programmatic Invalidation

• Online Usage Reports and Charts

• Industry-compliant, detailed Access Logs

Dynamic Content Acceleration

• Low Minimum Content Expiration Periods (TTL=0)

• Multiple Cache Behaviors

• Multiple Origin Servers

• CORS Support

• Origin Connection Protocol

• Viewer Connection Protocol

• Zone Apex Support

• Query String & Cookie Support

• Put/Post HTTP Verb Support

• Full VARY Support

• User Agent Detection

• Geo Targeting

• Multi-Site Hosting

Price Flexibility

• On Demand Pay for Use

• Price Classes

• Committed Private Pricing

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Reference Architecture: Overview – Media/EntertainmentStreaming in Front of Your Origin

• Deliver Static and Dynamic Content

• Offload origin traffic to CloudFront CDN

• Serve LIVE Event Traffic to Large Crowds

• Serve VOD Media to any device

• Alter content based on User Agent

• Secure connections via SSL• Authenticate via signed URLs• Supports 3rd Party DRM

Static ContentServed from S3

*.jpg, *.m3u8, *.ts, *.css

Dynamic or Static ContentServed from ELB and/or EC2

*.php, *.js, *m3u8, *.ts

CloudFront and the AWS Ecosystem

• Integrates with AWS Resources– Amazon Route 53 DNS

– Amazon Elastic Transcoder

– S3 Storage

– EC2 Compute and Elastic Load Balancing

– Marketplace SaaS and SI partners

• Improves Scalability of otherAmazon Resources

• Free Data Transfer from Amazon S3 & EC2 to CloudFront

POST /2012-07-01/distribution HTTP/1.1

Host: cloudfront.amazonaws.com

Authorization: AWS authentication string

Date: time stamp

Other required headers

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<DistributionConfig

xmlns="http://cloudfront.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-07-01/">

Manage Your Content Your Way

API Consolemanagement and reporting

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