In this session, learn how to build highly available and redundant, multi-origin workflows with Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Route 53, and Lambda@Edge.

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Build Workflows with Amazon CloudFront,
Amazon Route 53, & Lambda@Edge
Archit Jain
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
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Alexander Korobeynikov
Software Development Engineer
Amazon

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Problems
• Building fault tolerant multiple-origin setup systems
• Building low latency websites which serve content from nearest
location

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What is Amazon Route 53 (Route 53)?
Users
Elastic IP
address

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What is Amazon CloudFront ?
Users

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What is Lambda@Edge?
Users
Viewer request
Viewer response
Origin request
Origin response
Generate response

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Using CloudFront & Route 53 with multi origin
When should you use it?
• Multiple non–Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3) origins
• Health check & latency based routing
to nearest servers
Users
Elastic
IP
address

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Using CloudFront with native origin failover capability
When should you use it?
• Primary-secondary origin setup
• Ability to failover for every request
Users
4xx/5xx
200 OK
Secondary
origin
Primary
origin

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When should you use it?
• Location based origin selection
• Select origin based on request parameters
• Content generation with Lambda@Edge
Origin request
Users
Re-define origin
Origin as updated in
origin request function
Using Amazon CloudFront with Lambda@Edge

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Comparison
Route 53
CloudFront origin
fallback
Lambda@Edge
Select nearest
origin (latency) ✔︎ ✔︎
Multi-region
Amazon S3 origin ✔︎ ✔︎
Failover on every
origin errors ✔︎
Health check ✔︎

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Questions

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Archit Jain
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
Alexander Korobeynikov
Software Development Engineer
Amazon

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