CloudFront is the Content Distribution Network (CDN) service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
This service allows you – whether or not your site itself is hosted in the AWS cloud – to offload static content to one of AWS’ distributed network of sites, to load faster for your visitors, by being served from a (really fast) server located near to them, rather than being sent from your server sitting wherever that happens to be.
Because CloudFront is optimized to quickly deliver static content, it will usually be a faster way to send images. Because its got locations caching your static content in multiple regions across the globe, you’ll be able to faster serve visitors from anywhere.
Also see other CDN services, like CloudFlare (which also provides a DNS proxy service too, and is free).
If you want to allow someone else (like a contractor, or Silicon Dales) to access your AWS account to add CloudFront to act as a CDN for your WordPress website (and why wouldn’t you, its a great way to offload static content, and can even be free for your first year under the free usage …
Silicon Dales’ hosting clients can get a dedicated IP address and Cloudfront hosting by Amazon. Speed up your website and increase your search rankings! How Does It Work? Amazon CloudFront takes static content from your website (the stuff that doesn’t change much) and hosts it in the cloud – all around the world. So, when …
