Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content or other web assets. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services products to give developers and businesses an easy way to accelerate content to end users with no minimum usage commitments.

Edge Locations are used in conjunction with the AWS CloudFront service which is Content Delivery Network service. Edge Locations are deployed across the world in multiple locations to reduce latency for traffic served over the CloudFront and as result are usually located in highly populated areas

Amazon CloudFront is optimized to work with other AWS services, like Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, ELB, and Amazon Route 53

– Copy of the static content ( e.g. , images, css files, streaming  of prerecording video) and dynamic content ( e.g., html response, live video ) can be cached at Amazon CloudFront, which is content delivery network (CDN) consisting of multiple edge location around the world. Edge caching allows content to be served by infrastructure that is closer to viewers, lowering latency and giving you the high data transfer rates.

CloudFront – 2 types of distribution HTTP/HTTPS (WEB) and RTMP ( Streaming )