Content Delivery Using Amazon CloudFront

1. Content Delivery
Using
Amazon CloudFront
Shared by: @sandeepkaur @amandeepsingh

2. Overview
● Define the term CDN
● Introduce CloudFront
● Illustrate how CloudFront
operates
● Review common Use
Cases for CloudFront
● Walk through case
Study
● Quiz

3. What is a CDN
A content delivery network(CDN) is a system of
distributed servers(network) that deliver webpages and
other web content to a user based on the geographic
location of the user.

4. What is a CDN

5. What is a CDN

6. What is a CDN

7. ● Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website,
○ including dynamic,
○ static,
○ streaming and interactive content
using a global network of Edge locations.
● CloudFront is optimized to work with other Amazon Web Services,
○ Amazon Simple Storage Service(Amazon S3),
○ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2),
○ Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and
○ Amazon Route53.
● Amazon CloudFront also work seamlessly with any non-AWS origin
server, which store the original, definitive version of your files.
What is a CDN

8. CloudFront- Key Terminology
Edge Location: This is the location where the content will be cached. This is
separated to an AWS region and availability zones.
Origin: This is the origin of all the files that the CDN will distribute. This can be
either an S3 bucket, an EC2 instance, an Elastic Load balancer or Route53.
Distribution: This is the name given the CDN which consists of a collection of
edge locations.
● Web Distribution: Typically used for website.
● RTMP: Used for media streaming.

9. Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of 116 Points of Presence (105 Edge
Locations and 11 Regional Edge Caches) in 56 cities across 24 countries.

12. Amazon CloudFront Pricing

13. Amazon CloudFront Pricing

14. Amazon CloudFront Pricing
AWS no longer charging for AWS data transfer out to Amazon CloudFront.

15. Where can CloudFront help you?
● Static Content Use Cases:
○ Media Delivery (Video & Audio)
○ Software Download
○ Web Site Assets (Images, CSS, JS)
● Dynamic Content Use Cases:
○ News
○ Social media
○ Weather
○ Advertising
● Live Streaming
○ Sporting Events
○ Company Meetings

16. ● Multiple Cache Behaviors
● Multiple Origin Servers
● Minimum Expiration
Period
● Query String Parameters
Dynamic Content

18. How we are using CloudFront for
optimized content delivery on Tokr
CloudFront @

19. About the
Tokr is the application which helps end users to
find the nearest weed dispensaries around their
area and allows them to claim deals if any. It
also allows the dispensaries to be registered
with the application so as to showcase their
products and help the audience to reach them
based on their personal preferences.
Technologies used:
- Angular JS
- Django Rest Framework
- AWS Infrastructure

20. Old Architecture
Web
Clients
Mobile
Clients
EC2 Instance
AWS S3
Bucket
RDS
MySql

21. Problem with old architecture
- Fails in Load testing when a number of users access the app simultaneously
- Single point of Failure
- SSL costing
- Slow response time

22. Architecture
AWS
CloudFront
Web
Clients
Mobile
Clients
AWS S3
Bucket
Elastic Load
balancer
EC2 App
instance
EC2 App
instance
RDS
MySql
trytokr.s3.amazonaws.com
Tokr-Ohio-EBD-xxxxxxxxxxxx.elb.us-east.com
https://www.trytokr.com
Origins
AWS Certificate Manager
Automatic SSL certificate
deployment and renewal
Static Resources
Dynamic Resources

23. Success stories with new architecture
- With the help of load balancer, load on the EC2 instances is equally divided
- With the help of Cloudfront, speed of the website has been improved by 40%
approximately
- 99.99% uptime since relaunch (100% after Launch day)
- Business impact: Lower hosting cost, improved consumer experience

24. CloudFront Distribution

25. CloudFront Origin

26. CloudFront Origin

27. CloudFront Cache Behaviours

28. CloudFront Cache Behaviours

29. CloudFront Origin

30. CloudFront Cache Behaviours

31. Any Question?

33. What types of content does Amazon CloudFront support?

34. How does Amazon CloudFront speed up my entire website?

35. Does Amazon CloudFront work with non-AWS origin servers?

36. Thank you.