Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network

Content Delivery Network

A content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....

 (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com...

. CloudFront operates on a pay-as-you-go basis. The service was launched in Beta on November 18, 2008.

CloudFront has servers located in Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, and Germany), Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan) as well as in several major cities in the United States.

CloudFront competes with larger content delivery networks such as Akamai

Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton...

 and Limelight Networks

Limelight Networks

Limelight Networks is a content delivery network service provider. The company is based in Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A., with offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. The company operates a global fiber-optic network that helps content publishers avoid sending...

. Upon launch, Larry Dignan of ZDNet News stated that CloudFront could cause price and margin reductions from competing CDNs.

External links

• Amazon CloudFront (official site)
• CloudBerry Explorer (Freeware
  Freeware
  Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...
  
  Windows client for Amazon CloudFront)