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Serve content faster with CloudFront

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Serve content faster with CloudFront

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- So we already know that you can use an S3 bucket to host the static content for your website, like images, and videos. With CloudFront, you can push the contents of this S3 bucket to Edge servers all over the world. So if you have users in Ireland, your videos will load faster for them because they're being served a local copy from the Ireland data center. Now your users in Tokyo or your users in Brazil, will be served content from the data center that's closest to them. CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network or CDN, that can mirror your S3 bucket all across the world, and it's a lot cheaper than a plane ticket to Tokyo. In the S3 Console in your Bucket settings, click on the Permissions tab. This will let you control public access to your bucket, but I can't stress enough that you really need to stop and read the documentation here and observe the warnings. Be careful to not publicly expose your database backups…

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