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Amazon CloudFront adds Canadian edge servers

August 11, 2016
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It is good to know that Amazon AWS service adds new edge locations in Montreal and Toronto for Cloudfront. I hope it will be soon to have a new edge in Canada West, such as Vancouver.

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Amazon CloudFront adds new edge locations in Montreal and Toronto, our first in Canada

We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge locations in Toronto and Montreal, our first edge locations in Canada. Adding locations in Canada has been frequently requested by our customers so we are excited to add these two locations to our global network. If you’re already using Amazon CloudFront, you don’t need to do anything to your applications as requests are automatically routed to these locations when appropriate.

These new edge locations help improve performance and availability to end users of your applications and support all Amazon CloudFront features at no additional cost. Pricing for the new edge locations in Canada is the same as that in the US.

We have also added a second edge location in Sao Paolo, Brazil, our third edge location in Brazil. With the addition of the new locations in Canada and the second edge location in Sao Paolo, Amazon CloudFront now has a total of 59 edge locations worldwide. To see a list of all Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list. To learn more about the service, attend a monthly office hour session that includes Q&A with Amazon CloudFront Engineers and Product Managers. Visit Amazon CloudFront for more information and register for the next office hour.

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Get 502 bad gateway error from CloudFront CDN with SSL

September 25, 2014
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I have a site with https only. And at the same time I am using AWS CloudFront as CDN.

One issue I met is 502 Bad Gateway error.

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After the Googleing and research, I found the reason of it.

The real reason is AWS Cloudfront just support certain Encryption method.

See the results from ssllabs testing.

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Then I change the seetings in SSL cipher suite.

SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5

Then, run ssllabs test again, result as below:

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The 502 bad gateway is gone.

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Amazon AWS price reduction for EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache and Elastic MapReduce

March 27, 2014
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It is a big news. Amazon announced, effective April 1, 2014, they are reducing prices for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, he Amazon Relational Database Service, and Elastic MapReduce.

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The EC2 Price is reducing from 10% to 38% per your instance type or OS.

The S3 price is reducing from 36% to 65%. The highest price,  0-1TB tier is $0.03/GB/Month.

The Amazon RDS price is reducing by an average of 28%.

The Amazon ElastiCache price is reducing by an average of 34%.

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Go back to Amazon AWS CloudFront

March 12, 2014
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I start to use CDN from April 2010, with MaxCDN. Later, I moved to Amazon, FrontCloud in August, 2010.
For some reason, I move back to MaxCDN. I start to use MaxCDN again from June 2012. In April 2013, I started to use CDN77.
A few days ago, in March 2014, I go back to Amazon AWS CloudFront. It is a reliable CDN service provider. The price is pay as you go. Based on my network volume, I prefer this price structure.

I setup CloudFront with custom origin server. Add CNAME on it. One of the CDN rules is to use two CDN host name, not one, not three. Two is the perfect number and best performance.

I tested my new CloudFront CDN ping value through CA ping tool. There are over 30 monitoring stations worldwide. My testing result is:

  • AWS CloudFront CDN,

Average: 48.29
Median: 3.05

  • CDN77 CDN

Average: 51.69
Median: 20.15

It shows that CloudFront has better ping value.

The original testing data link.

Testing tool provided by CA Technologies. http://cloudmonitor.ca.com/en/ping.php

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AWS Data Transfer Pricing reduced

June 30, 2011
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It is a good news.
Amazon just announce this big pricing change. Users can save up to 43%.
Even like my small blog site, still can get benefit of it. I highlight it below.
Inbound AWS Data Transfer price for all regions (through June 30, 2011)
$0.100 per GB – data transfer in
Outbound data transfer price for US-Standard, US-West and Europe regions (through June 30, 2011)
$0.000 – first 1 GB / month data transfer out
$0.150 per GB – up to 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.110 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.090 per GB – next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.080 per GB – data transfer out / month over 150 TB
New inbound data transfer price for all regions (effective July 1, 2011)
$0.000 – all data transfer in
New data transfer price for US-Standard, US-West and Europe regions (effective July 1, 2011)
$0.000 – first 1 GB / month data transfer out
$0.120 per GB – up to 10 TB / month data transfer out (10 TB total)
$0.090 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out (50TB total)
$0.070 per GB – next 100 TB / month data transfer out (150 TB total)
$0.050 per GB – next 350 TB / month data transfer out (500 TB total)
Contact us – next 524 TB / month data transfer out (1PB total)
Contact us – next 4 PB / month data transfer out (5PB total)
Contact us – data transfer out / month over 5 PB
So, the first 1GB on S3 is free. In and Out.

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Amazon CloudFront support custom origin

November 10, 2010
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Amazon just announced that CloudFront now support custom origin, which means users can use their own server as the original content storage. You don’t have to use S3 as origin.
It is more flexible for users. Easy to integrated with CMS system.
Her are some reference of custom origin.
Defination of Origin Server.
Developer Guide: Appendix Custom Origin
Right now, AWS management can not create CloudFront with custom origin. But, if you have a distribute with custom origin, you can manage it in AWS management.

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