Leveraging S3 as a CDN in a modern web application build

12 points by dslama 9 years ago · 3 comments

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This is a very confusing article. It begins:

    Web applications typically begin their life serving their
    own static assets(javascript, css, etc) to the browser. An
    alternative to this strategy would have these assets be
    hosted by a highly-available content delivery network or 
    CDN (e.g. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)).

S3 isn't a CDN. It's a storage service. And it has egress charges (per request and bandwidth). Using it as a CDN seems like madness. Especially when Amazon has a CDN called CloudFront. Or you could stick everything in S3 and use a third party, free CDN like Cloudflare. By all means store your assets in something like S3 but don't use it as a CDN. It's not.

dslamaOP 9 years ago

Yeah, you right! Thanks, I've updated the post

d883kd8 9 years ago

We're just using "web-scale" unironically now to describe things meant to operate on the scale of the world wide web. I guess this is progress?

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