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Amazon S3
provides a storage service on the internet while
Amazon CloudFront
is a web service for content delivery. Amazon S3 uses its own global network of web sites while Amazon CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations. Major differences in the features of both these services are mentioned below:
Comparative features of Amazon S3 and CloudFront
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Amazon S3
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Amazon Cloudfront
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https (SSL) to encrypt the communication
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Use S3 for https(SSL). |
Currently CloudFront does not support this feature |
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Refresh file Changes
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With S3 changes in files are almost instant so for the files, which change frequently should be used with S3. |
With CloudFront , changes in file may take 24 hours to get refreshed. |
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Server Access Logging
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S3 supports Server Access Logging. |
As of May 6th, 2009, CloudFront supports Access Logging |
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Root support
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S3 does not allow Root support. |
CloudFront also does not allow Root support. |
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Edge locations
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Sites which Amazon CloudFront uses to cache copies of requested content for faster delivery to end users. |
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S3 does not support Edge locations. |
CloudFront supports this feature so user can access requested content faster. |
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CNAME support
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[A CNAME specifies an alias or nickname for a domain name system.] |
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S3 supports only one CNAME. |
CloudFront supports upto 10 CNAMEs for now. This allows distributing the content from multiple hosts while keeping them in a single bucket ( a browser usually only uses 4 parallel connections to a single host, if you have several images / media files on a single page, then serving them from multiple hosts would allow simultaneous downloads) - the upside of single CNAME means you can switch between S3 & CloudFront instantly by just changing the CNAME on your DNS server, if you keep the bucket name same as the CNAME of your CloudFront distribution. |
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