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Recently came across an article on using AWS CloudFront to deliver the whole site, instead of using Varnish as reverse proxy. Is it really better than Varnish, especially in case of Magento?
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Varnish is a Caching Reverse Proxy while CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network. My suggestion: If you are looking at serving content all over the world, go with CloudFront. If you're just serving to a local user base, simply fire up a high memory instance and install Varnish and serve content off Varnish.
You can use a content delivery network (CDN) like Amazon CloudFront to improve the performance of your website by securely delivering data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds.
CloudFront speeds up the distribution of your content by routing each user request through the AWS backbone network to the edge location that can best serve your content. Typically, this is a CloudFront edge server that provides the fastest delivery to the viewer.
Varnish is a Caching Reverse Proxy while CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network. My suggestion: If you are looking at serving content all over the world, go with CloudFront. If you're just serving to a local user base, simply fire up a high memory instance and install Varnish and serve content off Varnish. This takes time, but is definitely worth the effort.
Here's a useful link: https://fournines.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/improving-page-speed-cdn-vs-squid-varnish-nginx/
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Varnish is page level caching while Cloudfront is CDN. Varnish has a programming language called vcl which provides you ultimate flexibility in setting redirects etc. Also it prvides lot of modules to lot of wonderful thinngs, Varnish and Cloudfront are not competitiors
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