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Amazon CloudFront

Content delivery network

Summary

Content delivery network

Field	Value
name	Amazon CloudFront
logo	AWS Simple Icons Content Delivery Amazon CloudFront Streaming Distribution.svg
logo_size	100px
url
ipv6	Yes
type	Content Delivery Network (CDN)
registration	Required
owner	Amazon
launch_date

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) operated by Amazon Web Services. The content delivery network was created to provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers to cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, to improve access speed for downloading the content.

CloudFront has servers located in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Australia, South America, Africa, and several major cities in the United States. In May 2025, the service operated from 1600+ edge locations on every continent excluding Antarctica.

CloudFront operates on a pay-as-you-go basis.

CloudFront competes with larger CDNs, such as Akamai, Azion, Cloudflare, and Edgio (previously known as Limelight Networks). Upon launch, Larry Dignan of ZDNet News stated that CloudFront could cause price and margin reductions for competing CDNs.

Timeline

November 18, 2008 – Beta launch of CloudFront
May 7, 2009 – Adds access logging capability
November 11, 2009 – Adds support for private content
December 15, 2009 – Announced Amazon CloudFront Streaming
March 28, 2010 – Amazon launches edge locations in Singapore and adds private content for streaming
May, 2014, Amazon CloudFront is included in the Free Tier usage

References

"Amazon CloudFront Product Details". Amazon.com.
Larry Dignan. (November 18, 2008). "Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom". [[ZDNet]].
"AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon CloudFront".

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