Cloudfront Origin Shield

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Cloudfront Origin Shield

AWS/Amazon CloudFront

  • outline

Additional caching layer of CloudFront, it can minimize load on your orgins, increase availability and reduce operational costs.

  • how-to
  1. Distributions

  2. Origin / Edit

  3. Enable Origin Shield / Yes

  4. Origin Shield Region / choose region

  • effect

By using extra cache layer, Better cache hit ratio // Reduced origin load // Better network performance

  • note

If there is a lot of access in a specific region, it may not have the proper effect and even non-cacheable requests may be charged.

  • analytics
  1. Reports & analytics

  2. Viewers

  3. choose Locations / Distribution

  • reference

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ko_kr/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/origin-shield.html