Amazon CloudFront: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Making Plans

Looking Back
In 2011 we added a total of seven edge locations to Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. We also added lots of new features, as I documented last year.

Looking Forward
Our newest edge locations are located in Milan, Italy and Osaka, Japan. This brings our total worldwide location count to 26 (see the CloudFront page for a complete list). Each new edge location helps lower latency and improves performance for your end users.

Making Plans
We have additional locations in the pipeline for 2012 and beyond. Our planning process takes a number of factors in to account including notes from our sales team and discussions on the Amazon CloudFront forum. We also collect latency measurements from a number of points around the globe to our current set of locations and correlate them with broadband Internet penetration and existing Amazon CloudFront usage in the area.

I would also like to invite you to participate in the Amazon CloudFront Edge Location Survey. We are very interested in your suggestions for additional locations. We'd also like to learn a bit more about the type of content that you deliver to your customers.

All Aboard
The CloudFront team is hiring. We need some Software Development Engineers, a Senior Systems Engineer,a Senior Software Development Manager,  a Product Manager, and a Business Development Representative.

-- Jeff;

 

Comments

[Josh]

Please please please make Amazon S3 available in Australia!!!

[Mr C]

couldn't see anywhere to add this to the survey, but any plans to support HTTP/1.1 or SPDY?

[Brad King]

I'd love to see an option for case-insensitive URLS. Right now it has to be an exact match with the S3 key backing it. Our customers find this odd and unexpected for image hosting.

[John Mark Mitchell]

I know there are a number of us that would love to move our CDN needs to CloudFront if only you supported HTTPS with custom CNAMEs. I understand that supporting custom CERTs is nontrivial but it is a requirement for many of us and would round out the CloudFront product offering. I really like what you are doing with all the AWS services and would love to move this last remaining business to you so please consider adding this feature in 2012.

[John Mark Mitchell]

AWS staff have stated that HTTPS support for distribution CNAMEs is on their feature list (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=320701#320701) but that it needs community support for prioritization. To help in this effort please fill out the CloudFront survey (see below) and note this feature request. AWS staff use data gathered from the survey for planning and prioritizing the CloudFront roadmap.

Be sure to note that HTTPS CNAME support is needed when you take the CloudFront Survey: http://aws.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9yvAN5PK8abJIFK