Amazon CloudFront Getting Started

With Amazon CloudFront, you can deliver digital content to users around the world quickly and reliably through a global network of edge locations. The service stores copies of your content in data centers worldwide. When users access your website or application, they connect to the location nearest to them. This means faster load times and better performance for all your users, whether they’re watching videos, downloading files, or browsing your website. In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of Amazon CloudFront. If you are new to the service, you will learn how to start using CloudFront through a demonstration using the AWS Management Console. You will learn about how CloudFront improves content delivery performance by caching and serving content from locations closest to your users.

Activities:

• Demonstrations
• Knowledge Checks

Course objectives:

• Identify the purpose of CloudFront.
• Recognize problems CloudFront can solve.
• Identify the benefits of CloudFront.
• Recognize key characteristics of CloudFront pricing.
• Recognize how to use CloudFront.
• Recognize the relationship between CloudFront and other components of the AWS Cloud.
• Recognize the meaning of CloudFront technical concepts.
• Identify typical use cases for CloudFront.

Intended audience:

• Business Users
• Cloud Operators
• Decision Makers
• Developers
• DevOps Engineers
• Project/Program/Delivery Managers

Recommended Skills:

• No Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience needed. Basic understanding of websites is helpful.

Course Outline:

Module 1: Introduction

• Introduction to Amazon CloudFront
• Architecture and Use Cases

Module 2: Using Amazon CloudFront

• How to Use CloudFront

Module 3: Resources

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