Amazon Web Services

Amazon have announced the release of CloudFront, their new cloud based service which delivers your content using a global network of edge locations. With the release of CloudFront, Amazon’s ever-increasing cloud computing service portfolio has increased to include content delivery. This is a new service that caches high-traffic content on the Amazon worldwide network of servers. The basic concept is that the content is served from the closest server on the edge of the Amazon network…leading to fast delivery and low latency.

While this is not a new market and it is already dominated my large and established brands, it has traditionally been an expensive market. Amazon has built a pay-as-you-go service which is very cheap and easy to use. Requests for your objects are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. Amazon CloudFront works seamlessly with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) which durably stores the original, definitive versions of your files. Like other Amazon Web Services, there are no contracts or monthly commitments for using Amazon CloudFront – you pay only for as much or as little content as you actually deliver through the service. They have 14 edge locations around the world. These are:

US:

• Ashburn, Virginia
• Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
• Los Angeles, California
• Miami, Florida
• Newark, New Jersey
• Palo Alto, California
• Seattle, Washington
• St. Louis, Missouri

Europe

• Amsterdam
• Dublin
• Frankfurt
• London

Asia

• Hong Kong
• Tokyo

You can find more information here
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront

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