In order to improve download speed, Amazon provides a content delivery network (CDN) on a globally distributed network of proxy servers that caches content such as bulky media, videos, and so on. Amazon CloudFront is a CDN offered by Amazon Web Services. The following steps are involved in creating a CDN:
- Firstly, open an AWS account at https://aws.amazon.com/.
- Log in to your account at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/home.
- Click Get Started under Web, and select Create distribution.
- Fill in the correct details for each setting, as shown in the following screenshot:
Some of the options are as follows: ...