Rahul on Substack: "S3 would be good enough to host content, however to reduce latency especially for cross-geographical users CDN(Content delivery network) is mostly used. CloudFront is managed CDN offering from AWS. In many use-cases, S3 and cloudFront are used together."

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Vishakha J

Mar 29, 2024

Nice Article! Loved the story format!

I have a question about S3 and CloudFront mentioned in step 5. What could be the usecase to use both? Won't S3 be enough to host images, css and javascript?

Rahul

Aug 19

S3 would be good enough to host content, however to reduce latency especially for cross-geographical users CDN(Content delivery network) is mostly used. CloudFront is managed CDN offering from AWS.

In many use-cases, S3 and cloudFront are used together.

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