Cloudfront, Amazon’s Caching Delivery Network (CDN)
October 9th, 2009 by Raymond Velez
- Image by playerx via Flickr
It’s nice to see Amazon moving into the CDN space with their Cloudfront offering, it seems like the CDN market can definitely use some fresh look at the challenge. It looks like it builds off your usage of Amazon S3 but with an accelerator finding the closest cache server to deliver your content. With this approach it doesn’t seem like a great fit as a CDN for any architecture. The chart on the right is an interesting comparison.
I’ve been intrigued over the last couple of years with Coral Caching. Peer to peer open source caching seems like it’s ripe with opportunity, wouldn’t it be cool if my mediacenter pc, apple tv and other laptops that sit at home idle during the day could be leveraged to help offload servers. I guess it’s a balance of saving power and sleeping or turning off the box vs. using less server power.
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2 Responses to “Cloudfront, Amazon’s Caching Delivery Network (CDN)”
I always enjoy learning what other people think about Amazon Web Services and how they use them. Check out my very own tool CloudBerry Explorer that helps to
manage S3 and CloudFront on Windows . It is a freeware. http://cloudberrylab.com/
Except you seem to forget that Cloudfront is a fraction of the cost of any other CDN (and a fraction of the capabilities as well). For a low cost CDN, CloudFront really works quite well when budget is a big factor (and when is it not?)