I have been setting up CloudFront CDN to serve static content for client’s websites. CloudFront is a CDN service provided by Amazon and is very easy to setup. Most CDN providers like Akamai, Limelight and Edgecast require you to sign a contract, but CloudFront is pay as you go. In order to use CloudFront  you need to create a “distribution”, which is on basic terms an association of a S3 bucket containing your static files to an Amazon generated domain name like “d12rt92h42a9rz.cloudfront.net”. After you create a “distribution” you will get an Amazon generated domain name, add it as an alias to a CNAME and you are all set.

More about CloudFront:

• Provides two delivery methods one for video streaming and one for basic file downloads
• Has ability to write access logs to S3
• Has ability to mask the Amazon generated domain name with your CNAME
• Has numerous edge locations in US, Europe and Asia
• Has HTTPS capability

Here is more info on CloudFront:

http://awsdocs.s3.amazonaws.com/CF/latest/cf-gsg.pdf

by info@clearscale.net