AWS re:Invent 2017: Introduction to Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda@Edge (CTD201)

End users expect to be able to view static, dynamic, and streaming content anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Amazon CloudFront is a web service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets to end users around the globe with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. In this session, learn what a content delivery network (CDN) such as Amazon CloudFront is and how it works, the benefits it provides, common challenges and needs, performance, recently released features and examples of how customers are using CloudFront. You will also learn about recustomizing content delivery through AWS Lambda@Edge - a serverless compute service that lets you execute functions to customize the content delivered through CloudFront.