4 articles tagged with ""cloudfront""
Your S3 bucket in us-east-1 is making users in Singapore wait 800ms for a logo. CloudFront fixes that AND slashes your bandwidth bill. Here's everything I learned the hard way.
I once served 10,000 users in Tokyo from a single EC2 instance in us-east-1. Every image, every CSS file, every API response — round-tripping 14,000km across the Pacific. My users were not happy. CloudFront fixed it. Let me save you the embarrassment.
Your images are fast. In Virginia. Users in Singapore are crying. Let me tell you how CloudFront fixed our e-commerce app and why cache invalidation is still the hardest problem in computer science.
CloudFront is the best CDN on the planet when configured right. And an expensive, confusing mess when configured wrong. I've done both. Let me save you from the expensive part.