Improving Consumer Experience with CloudFront
summary
Migrates a static marketing site from EC2/ALB to S3 origin + CloudFront distribution with Route 53 and ACM for SSL, cutting ops and patching needs while keeping content private via Origin Access Identity and a bucket policy. Demo serves a 163 MB video smoothly; latency falls from ~709 ms (Sydney S3) to ~71 ms with CloudFront (~1,000% improvement). Uses 200+ edge locations, S3 at $0.02–$0.03/GB, CloudFront egress ≈ $0.085/GB, invalidations $0.005/path after 1,000 free; TTLs and targeted invalidations control updates.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 3:47INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW
- 6:41INFRASTRUCTURE V2 OVERVIEW
- 7:31INFRASTRUCTURE V3
- 8:09CLOUDFRONT - WHAT IS IT?
- 9:43CLOUDFRONT - PRICING
- 28:35PERFORMANCE TESTING
- 29:11FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS
- 29:36GOTCHA'S & GREMLINS
- 30:58ADVANCED TOPICS
- 31:16LET'S CONNECT
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