Amazon Web Services announced the launch of two Amazon CloudFront edge locations in India. Located in Chennai and Mumbai, the newly launched points-of-presence join a global network of 42 edge locations worldwide that the Amazon CloudFront service uses to deliver content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds. The new edge locations also support Amazon Route 53, a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
New Edge Locations for Amazon CloudFront further speed content delivery across the world
With two more edge locations added to AWS’s global content distribution network, Amazon CloudFront provides the following benefits to customers and their end users. It allows the delivery of an entire website as well as images, videos, media files and downloadable software with high performance and low latency to end users around the globe. By using the network of Amazon CloudFront edge locations around the world to automate the routing of content requests, organizations improve their proximity to users, speed performance and increase user satisfaction. It does not require minimum commitments or upfront fees, enabling customers to pay only for the content delivered through the global network of Amazon CloudFront edge locations. It is simple and eliminates the need to overprovision expensive web-server capacity to support unpredictable traffic peaks.
“Organizations in India need the flexibility to rapidly scale IT infrastructure as they grow without spending precious capital on hardware or getting locked into a long term contract with a co-location facility,” said Shane Owenby, Amazon Web Services Managing Director of Asia Pacific. “Using AWS has removed the constraint related to infrastructure resources and has enabled many of our customers, ranging from start-ups to enterprises to unleash their ideas, innovate fast and build new businesses quickly.”