CloudFront

Question 1

What is CloudFront?

Answer 1

It’s Amazon’s CDN

Question 2

Where is Amazon’s content cached?

Answer 2

In Edge Locations

Question 3

What’s an Edge Location?

Answer 3

It’s Amazons Content Delivery Network

Question 4

What is Origin?

Answer 4

Its the origin of all files that the CDN will distribute

Question 5

What is a Distribution

Answer 5

Its a collection of Edge Locations

Question 6

What is TTL (time to live)?

Answer 6

It’s the length of time a file is cached on Amazon’s Edge Location

Question 7

What the default TTL?

Answer 7

86400 seconds (24h)

Question 8

Name the two types of CloudFront and what they’re used for

Answer 8

Web Distribution => Used for Websites

RTMP => Used to media streaming (ex: flash)