AWS CloudFront Characteristics: 1) Zone Apex - Route 53 Alias record mapping to CloudFront distribution 2) Wildcard CNAME - support subdomains 3) SSL - supports wildcard SSL certificates -Dedicated IP Custom SSL -SNI Custom SSL 4) Distribution Types -Web Distributions -RTMP Distributions Distribution - This is the name given the CDN which consists of a collection of Edge Location 5) Geo Restriction: -Whitelist or blacklist countries -Blacklisted countries see 403 error -Custom error pages -Console or API 6) HTTP Methods -GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE and OPTIONS -Does not cache responses for PUT, POST, PATCH or DELETE 7) Origin This is the origin of all files that the CDN will distribute. This can be either an -S3 Bucket -EC2 Instance -Elastic Load Balancer -Route53 Origin Access Identifiers multiple origin multiple cache behaviors -> allow serve, static & dynamic contenst from the same distribution Default TTL 24h