What is a CDN and how does CloudFront improve application performance?

☁️ Cloud Development9/21/2025
A CDN caches content closer to users, reducing latency.

CDN Overview

  • Content Delivery Network = distributed edge servers.
  • AWS CloudFront: Global edge caching.

Benefits

  • Low latency.
  • Reduced bandwidth costs.
  • DDoS protection.
By: System Admin