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CloudFront security features

CloudFront security features - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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CloudFront security features

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- [Instructor] We have discussed the basics of Amazon CloudFront in our previous lecture and the importance of content delivery network to your web applications. In this lesson, we'll tackle the different security features that you can use in your CloudFront distribution to deliver content efficiently and securely. CloudFront revolves around three fundamental things, namely the content, the delivery, and the network. Apparently, this is the meaning of CDN, but these three words give you a clue of how CloudFront works under the hood. Knowing these core concepts can also help you understand how to secure content more effectively. Firstly, the word content refers to the data that you want to distribute to your users. The content that we're talking about here can either be static or dynamic. Static content refers to photos, videos, documents, and other files that don't change frequently. In contrast, dynamic content refers to the…

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