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Amazon CloudFront

Official docs outline

11 sections
  1. How CloudFront delivers content

    Edge locations, origins, distributions and cache hit flow.

  2. Configuring distributions

    Origins, behaviors, aliases and distribution settings.

  3. Caching and availability

    Cache behaviors, TTLs, invalidations and origin failover.

  4. Cache key and origin request policies

    Controlling what makes up a cache key and what is forwarded to the origin.

  5. Request and response behavior

    How CloudFront handles methods, headers, errors and compression.

  6. Restricting access to content

    Signed URLs, signed cookies, origin access control and geo restrictions.

  7. AWS WAF protections

    Attaching web ACLs to distributions.

  8. Edge functions

    CloudFront Functions and Lambda@Edge for request and response customization.

  9. Reports, metrics and logs

    Standard and real-time logs, metrics and cache statistics.

  10. Security

    IAM, encryption in transit and compliance for CloudFront.

  11. Quotas

    Distribution, header, request and function limits.

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