intermediate~2h

CloudFront & Content Delivery

AWS's global CDN — caching content at edge locations close to users to cut latency and offload traffic from your origin servers.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain how a CDN reduces latency and origin load
  • Configure a CloudFront distribution in front of S3 or an ALB origin
  • Explain cache invalidation and why it's needed
  • Distinguish CloudFront Functions from Lambda@Edge and when to use each

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