Latest offering from Amazon Web Services? A Content Delivery Network! Got this from email a few minutes ago:
Many of you have asked us to let you know ahead of time about features and services that are currently under development so that you can better plan for how that functionality might integrate with your applications. To that end, we are excited to share some early details with you about a new offering we have under development here at AWS — a content delivery service.
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Sorry about lack of updates on this site. This is something that I’ve done last week — trying out CacheFly, the Content Delivery Network, to host some of my static files.
Why Content Delivery Network (CDN)? In layman’s term, it makes your website appears faster to your visitors with minimum change on your site. There are many reasons why a website appears to be slow. It could be a slow server that takes ages to generate that dynamic page. It could be a slow network or throttling on server’s outbound port. Or it might just be the connectivity between the server and its visitors. When you have high latency due to geographical separation, and have many Javascript, CSS or other media files on the page — a slow link between your visitor and your server can really slow down the website.