Migrating content distribution to Amazon CloudFront: Best practices
summary
Migrates CDN workloads to Amazon CloudFront using CloudFront Functions for viewer-request logic and Lambda@Edge for origin-response processing, showing a working demo that resizes images on demand with the Sharp library, stores generated variants back to S3, and cuts a >200 KB JPEG down to ~7 KB WebP. Covers operational details: 230 PoPs, CloudFront Functions’ submillisecond startup, Lambda@Edge must be created in us‑east‑1, origin failover, geo restriction and WAF integration, logs/metrics via CloudWatch and S3.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Introduction and overview
- 8:42Use cases and features
- 19:31Image resizing demo
- 30:17Resources and closing
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