These slides cover information from the August 9, 2016 Amazon CloudFront office hour, which includes a brief overview on Amazon Cloudfront, key benefits of the service, how to use it with Amazon S3 and AWS ELB, pricing and how to get started.

1. Using Amazon CloudFront
with S3 & ELB
Aug 09, 2016
Venkat Vijayaraghavan
Sr. Product Manager, Amazon CloudFront

2. Agenda
• What is Amazon CloudFront
• Key Benefits of Using CloudFront
• Pricing
• How to Get Started
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3. What is Amazon CloudFront
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4. CloudFront: Global Content Delivery Network
 Accelerate ALL Content Types
o Dynamic content such as Web Applications, APIs
o Static content such as images, video etc.
 Full Featured CDN
 Massively Scalable
 Highly Secure
 Self Service
 Priced to Minimize Cost

5. Our growing global footprint…
North America South America EMEA APAC
POPs
Cities
Countries
Continents
AWS Region CloudFront Edge Location@cloudfront

6. Dynamic
Static
Video
User
Input
SSL
Amazon CloudFront: Whole Site Delivery
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7. Key Benefits of Using Amazon CloudFront
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8. Benefits of Using Amazon CloudFront
1. Improved Performance
Caching
Application Acceleration
2. Security
SSL/TLS Delivery
DDoS Protection
Web Application Firewall
3. Scale & Availability
Global Edge Network
Designed to Scale
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9. 1. CloudFront: Improved Performance
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10. Elastic Load
Balancing
Dynamic Content
Amazon EC2
Static Content
Amazon S3 Custom Origin
OR
OR
Custom Origin
Amazon CloudFront
example.com
*.jpg
*.php
Accelerate ALL Types of Content

11. Cache Static Content Closer to End User
user
request
origin
CloudFront
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user
request
Amazon S3
 Specify how long you
want the content to live
at the edge
 Remove content from
edge when it changes in
Amazon S3

12. Can Dynamic Content Be Optimized?
Dynamic Contents Are Not
Cachable
Content Proxied By CDN to the
Origin and Back

13. Can Dynamic Content Be Optimized?
user
request
origin
CloudFront
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user
request

14. Application Acceleration
 CloudFront Latency Based Routing
 TCP/IP Optimizations for the Network Path
 Keep-Alive Connections to reduce RTT
 AWS Backbone Network
 SSL/TLS Optimizations
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15. SSL/TLS Optimizations
 SSL/TLS Termination close to viewers
 OCSP Stapling
 Caching Session Tickets CloudFront
Edge location
Caching Session tickets
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16. Performance Metrics

17. Slack API Before Amazon CloudFront

18. Slack API Today

19. Average response time around the world to slack.com dropped from
480ms to 200ms
Response Time

20. Connection Breakdown
Amazon CloudFrontus-east-1 ELB

21. 2. CloudFront: Security Benefits
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22. CloudFront: Security Benefits
Inherent DDoS Protection
 Automatically protects from Layer 3/4
DDoS attacks
 Built-into CloudFront
 You don’t have to enable anything
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AWS Web Application Firewall
 Integrated with Amazon CloudFront
 Additional Protection Against Layer 7
Attacks
 Protect Against Most Common
Application Vulnerabilities
 Prevent Web Site Scraping Crawlers,
and BOTs

23. 3. CloudFront: Availability & Scalability
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24. Highly Available, Even During DDoS Attack
No Impact to Availability even during DDoS Attack
Sample Attack on CloudFront Customer
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25. Designed for High Availability
Scale for Traffic Surge
Load based dynamic routing
Multiple transit providers
Collapse forwarding
Maintain buffer
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Super Bowl: Built to handle large scale events

26. CloudFront: Pricing
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27. CloudFront Pricing Comparison
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
CloudFront Data Transfer Pricing S3 and EC2/ELB Data Transfer Pricing

28. CloudFront: Low Cost
 Pay as you go for what you use
 No Data Transfer Charges from AWS Region to CloudFront
 Static & Dynamic cost the same
 Price Classes to further optimize cost
 Free Tier to get started with CloudFront

29. CloudFront: How To Get Started
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30. Amazon Confidential. Under NDA Only
CloudFront Getting Started
 CloudFront Free Tier
 $25 CloudFront Credit
An Individual credit code will be emailed to all attendees within 2 weeks.

31. Amazon Confidential. Under NDA Only
CloudFront Getting Started
Using Amazon S3?
CloudFront Developer Guide: Using
CloudFront with Amazon S3
Using Elastic Load Balancing?
Learn how Slack used CloudFront in front of their ELBs to improve
API security and improve application response times by ~300ms.
- Alex Graham, Sr. Operations Engineer, Slack Technologies, Inc.
Watch Here -
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/webi
nars/#slack-video

32. Thank You