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Reduce Static Website Latency Hosted On S3 Bucket Using CloudFront

In this article, we will reduce the static website latency hosted on the S3 bucket by using CloudFront.

What Will Happen If S3 And Cloudfront Are Used In Tandem?

CloudFront caches the content of the S3 bucket on the locations near the user (called edge locations). Whenever the user requests the content, the cached content is provided to the user.

Picture showing the representation of different edge cloudfront locations

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How Does The Content Synchronize Between S3 Bucket And Cloudfront?

The content is transferred between the S3 bucket and CloudFront using the AWS private network. Please note that there is no data transfer cost between the S3 bucket and CloudFront.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Wednesday, January 12, 2022

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