Amazon CloudFront
Description
Comprehensive understanding of AWS CloudFront including content delivery network concepts, distributions, caching strategies, security features, and performance optimization for global content delivery.
Learning Objectives
Learners will master CloudFront CDN concepts including creating and configuring distributions, implementing caching strategies and behaviors, setting up origins and origin groups, configuring security features like signed URLs and WAF integration, optimizing performance with compression and HTTP/2, and monitoring CloudFront performance and usage analytics.
Topics (9)
Core CDN concepts including edge locations, regional edge caches, origin servers, and understanding how CloudFront improves content delivery performance globally.
Setting up S3 origins, custom origins, origin groups for failover, origin access identity, and implementing multi-origin strategies.
Understanding cache behaviors, TTL settings, cache key customization, query string and header forwarding, and optimizing cache hit ratios.
Configuring signed URLs and cookies for private content, integrating with AWS WAF, implementing geographical restrictions, and HTTPS configurations.
Understanding Lambda@Edge execution points, implementing viewer/origin request/response functions, and edge computing use cases.
Implementing automatic compression, HTTP/2 support, connection optimization, and performance tuning strategies for different content types.
Setting up CloudWatch monitoring, analyzing access logs, understanding cache statistics, and implementing performance monitoring strategies.
Understanding CloudFront pricing models, configuring price classes, optimizing data transfer costs, and implementing cost-effective content delivery strategies.
Setting up web distributions, configuring origins, understanding distribution settings, and managing distribution lifecycle and updates.