What Is Amazon CloudFront and Why Does It Matter? Amazon CloudFront is a globally distributed Content Delivery Network (CDN) from AWS that improves web content delivery—including static files, APIs, and streaming media—by caching at edge locations close to users. Its origin might be an S3 bucket, EC2 instance, or any HTTP server. This reduces latency, improves data transfer speed, and enhances reliability. AWS Documentation It works by routing user requests through the AWS backbone to…