AWS cloudfront grows up… a little. Now allows Custom origins.

 Cloudfront has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Here is what Jeff had to say when he announced that its out of “beta”….

    1. First, we've removed the beta tag from CloudFront and it is now in full production. During the beta period we listened to our customers and added a number of important features including Invalidation, a default root object, HTTPS access, private content, streamed content, private streamed content,AWS Management Console support, request logging, and additional edge locations. We've also reduced our prices.
    2. There's now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for CloudFront. If availability of your content drops below 99.9% in any given month, you can apply for a service credit equal to 10% of your monthly bill. If the availability drops below 99% you can apply for a service credit equal to 25% of your monthly bill.

While all this is a big step forward, its probably not enough for the more advanced CDN users to switch over yet.

Here are a couple of issues which stuck out in the Developer Guide.

  • Query parameters are not used to generate cache key. So while it looks like it can pull content from an elastic loadbalancer, it still acts like a giant S3 accelerator.
  • Doesn’t support HTTP/1.1 yet. So if you have multiple domains on the same IP, this solution isn’t for you.

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