BCS 450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Content Delivery Network, Amazon Cloudfront, Access Control List
Document Summary
Features: tiered storage, lifecycle management, versioning, encryption, secured via access control lists (acl) and bucket. Classes: s3 standard stored redundantly across multiple az"s, s3 infrequently accessed (ia) accessed less frequently but requires rapid access. S3 charges: storage, requests, storage management, data transfer, transfer acceleration, distributed to cloud fronts edge locations via amazon. Network: cross region replication, bucket can be replicated to another region. A content delivery network (cdn) is a network of dispersed computers that provide websites and other online material to users based on their geographic location, the origin of the webpage, and the position of a content delivery server. Cloudfront 101: edge location, this is where the material will be cached, origin, this is the source of all files distributed by the cdn. S3 bucket, an ec2 instance, an elastic load balancer, or route53: distribution, this is the moniker given to the cdn, which is made up of edge.
