6 ways how Cloud.in & AWS Cloudfront CDN can benefit your business

Every industry and every organization will have to transform itself in the next few years. What is coming at us is bigger than the original internet, and you need to understand it, get on board with it, and figure out how to transform your business.” — Tim O’Reilly, Founder & CEO of O’Reilly Media

For the past few years, there has been a significant increase in number of content delivery networks are providing a non-stop streaming and VoD experience to users.

At the same time, some websites and apps are facing challenges like frequent downtime, cyber-attacks, latency issues due to which billions of dollars of revenue is lost. Also, these issues lead to various other challenges such as bad customer experience, ransomware vulnerabilities, data leaks, data thefts, decreased SEO ratings, bad reputation, and so on. 

Therefore, to help nullify the possibilities for such challenges to occur in the first place, it is recommended for companies to use a networking solution. AWS Cloudfront, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is an ideal solution designed while keeping speed, latency & security into consideration. 

Let us have a look at some of the benefits that AWS Cloudfront can bring to your business:

1. Lower Latency: AWS has 275+ points of presence (PoPs) worldwide with automated network mapping and intelligent routing, which helps significant reduction in latency. This ultimately leads to a better customer experience.

2. Faster Content Delivery: Nearest Edge location is utilized for caching and delivering the static & dynamic content at the fastest speed, all this while ensuring there’s no downtime. One of the well-known use cases for speedy content delivery using Cloudfront is when Sky News delivered live streaming of Royal Wedding in the UK, to 23 million viewers. 

3. Immense Cost Reduction: As AWS Advanced consulting partner, Cloud.in can provide “Discounted Pricing” depending upon your commitments. Cloud.in have Amazon Cloudfront, Edge Services & Live Streaming expertise, enabling them to work closely with AWS to provide the best services to customers at affordable prices. To know more reach out to experts at Cloud.in for accelerated & secured content delivery.

  

4. Security Improvements & Protection Against Cyber Attacks: Cloudfront CDN supports seamless integrations with security offerings such as AWS Shield & Web Access Firewall (WAF), aiding in securing your websites and applications from any cyberattacks such as DDoS attacks, Ransomware, SQL injections, Cross-site scripting, etc.

5. DevOps friendly: For distributing the content on the web or using RTMP protocol using Amazon S3, AWS Elemental Mediastore, Route 53 & Media package, developers can easily do their work without any complications & complexities using the console. This simple DevOps interface helps create, configure and deliver the content within a short period. 

6. Improvement In SEO Rankings: Out of all the SEO factors that are considered while ranking, user experience (UX) is the most important one which acts as a bridge connecting brands to successful journeys. With Cloudfront CDN, you can achieve customer delight as they access your websites and applications with faster & secure performance, no downtime, with lower latency as compared to your competitors. In a long run, SEO strategy could play a vital role in terms of generating sales funnel as an intent-based audience is involved in this process.

 

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Critical Importance of DRaaS for your Business for Now and the Future

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It is a pattern which repeats itself year after year. From monsoons to floods to earthquakes, disasters are common to India. A 2018 UN report estimated that India has been among the top five countries with disaster-related economic losses of more than $79.5 billion in the last twenty years. India is also the 14th most vulnerable country in the world, according to the 2019 Global Climate Risk Index report.

Given this context, a robust disaster recovery process is absolutely vital, as the survival of the organization depends on it. In the current times, this is even more critical, as the Covid 19 crisis has enforced many more limitations with respect to physical access. Hence, irrespective of the size, every organization today needs a digital component. The cost of downtime in a digital age can be disastrous as it can shut down the ability of the business to deliver services to its end customers.

Traditional DR involves a huge number of steps, and is not only expensive, but also complex to execute. Firstly, setting up an alternate DR site requires enterprises to invest in acquiring the required space and the associated infrastructure (power, cooling, IT equipment) and manpower. Configuring the required infrastructure is also a complex process, as every component of the infrastructure has to be ready for deployment. This requires testing networks, software, hardware and applications. Data backup is also a tedious process. For example, if the backup medium is tape, then the tapes have to be delivered to the secondary DR site in the event of a disaster. Further, applications have to be patched with the latest updates and the network has to be configured to match the required specifications (firewall rules, authentication, DNS settings). Even if there is a small failure in one of the steps, then it stalls the entire recovery process. In the goal towards achieving DR compliance, organizations choose the DR strategy depending on the business risk. For example, the faster the recovery time needed, the more expensive is the solution. If the recovery time is slower, the cheaper is the solution. Hence, there is always a trade off between the benefit and the cost

How DRaaS can help?

Thanks to the cloud, DRaaS has emerged as a powerful option. DRaaS can help enterprises
overcome all the issues that are present with traditional DR.
Here is how

1. Faster recovery time: 

IT infrastructure components such as the operating system, application data and related patches can be quickly copied to the offsite DR site and be made live in a shorter period of time.

2. Efficient recovery: 

As every process is automated, replication is extremely efficient when compared to manual processes, which can have the probability of errors. Further, due to lower costs, organizations can test the reliability of their DR process more often, than they could have done using a traditional process. As the frequency of testing increases, it increases the accuracy, as organizations understand the gaps in their process, and can also determine the time taken for gauging how quickly critical workloads can be recovered in case of a disaster.

3. Lower TCO:

A pay-per-use model allows enterprises to pay only for actual usage. Enterprises only have to pay when data transfer takes place between the primary and

secondary site.

4. Lower upfront investment:

The cloud has levelled the playing field for even smaller organizations, as there is zero capital investment, and an enterprise has to only pay when the cloud option is used

5. Anywhere access:

The ability to access information from any part of the globe gives DRaaS a massive advantage. As the information is stored in the cloud, a DR process can be fired from anywhere in the world by just using a smartphone or a laptop. This is of huge advantage in the current situation, where organizations have been forced to cut down their manpower visiting their data centers. Today, DRaaS gives organizations the capability to shift the operations to a remote DR site quickly.

In an environment that demands an always-on infrastructure, DRaaS is a must have option today, as it gives enterprises the confidence and the ability to bounce back quickly in case of any disaster.

Primitive MediaPackage fended utilizing CDN authorities

One can curb explicit access to AWS Elemental MediaPackage by acquisition appeals for live composition applying CDN authorization. With CDN authorization, composition appeals need a peculiar HTTP element header and authorization ciphers. MediaPackage authenticates this cipher before it delivers any content. For directions on how to compose CDN authorization for live restrictions, documentation pages are used. Adopting a CDN such as Amazon CloudFront is preferably more favored with Media-Package, as CDNs cache video composition for more adequate delivery to obligated viewers. This enhances performance and reduces the costs by lowering the volume of video commenced and loaded from MediaPackage. MediaPackage functions individually or as part of AWS Elemental Media Services, a clan of assistance that forms the infrastructure of the cloud-based video system and overtures the potential required to transit, construct, assortment, monetize, and deliver video. AWS Elemental MediaPackage accurately assembles and assures video for delivery over the web. From a single video statistics, AWS Elemental MediaPackage constructs video streams formatted to cavort on connected gaming consoles. It makes it convenient to implement prevalent video functions for viewers like those ordinarily found on DVRs. AWS Elemental MediaPackage can also preserve the content utilising Digital Rights Management (DRM). AWS Elemental MediaPackage escalates automatically in retaliation to load, so the viewers will always gain exceptional experiences without having to precisely foresee in advance the capacity that will be needed. .

Amazon CloudFront presents new 7 data fields in access logs

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service which safely provides data, videos, applications, and APIs to users across world with low latency, great delivery pace. Amazon CloudFront is merged with AWS – both physical locations that are straight linked to the AWS global infrastructure, and also other AWS services. CloudFront boosts the delivery of your content by directing all user requests via the AWS backbone network to the edge location which can perfectly work for your content. CloudFront can be used to configure to produce log files that include comprehensive data about each user request that CloudFront gets. These access logs are accessible for both web and RTMP delivery. If you activate logging, you can also define the Amazon S3 bucket which you require CloudFront to store files in. Now, extra 7 data fields will add in your CloudFront access logs to better visibility into the distribution of your content. For example, with the x-edge-detailed-result-type field you can spot the particular type of error and with the sc-range-start/sc-range-end fields you can determine the requested range details. These new fields are included to the end of each log entry to keep backwards-compatibility with the previous log file format. To read about these new 7 data fields in access logs, refer Web Distribution Log File Format in the CloudFront documentation. Allowing access logs require zero cost, but standard S3 charges exert for maintaining the log files.

Amazon CloudFront Launches its first Edge location in Belgium

Amazon CloudFront is content delivery network (CDN) service which delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers safely across the world with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. Amazon CloudFront is a web service which boosts up delivery of your static and dynamic web content like .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users. Amazon CloudFront transfers your content via a global network of data centers called edge locations. Now Amazon CloudFront launches its first Edge Location in Brussels, Belgium. Now audiences in Belgium will discover up to a 28% boost in latency when accessing content through CloudFront with this new Edge location. Now Amazon CloudFront has 197 Points of Presence (186 Edge Locations and 11 Regional Edge Caches) in 74 cities across 34 countries. CloudFront is united with AWS – both physical locations which are straight away linked to the AWS global infrastructure, and also other AWS services. Amazon CloudFront runs smoothly with AWS Services containing AWS Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications, and Lambda@Edge to execute custom code. Lastly, if you use AWS origins such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 or Elastic Load Balancing, you don’t pay for any data transferred between these services and CloudFront. To read further information on Amazon CloudFront’s global infrastructure, refer CloudFront Features.

11 New Edge Locations Launched By Amazon CloudFront In India, Japan, And United States

Amazon CloudFront is content delivery network (CDN) service which securely provides data, videos, applications, and APIs to users universally with low latency, high transfer speeds. CloudFront is a web service that boosts allocation of your static and dynamic web content, like .html, .css, .js, and image files, to your users. CloudFront provides your content via a global network of data centers called edge locations. CloudFront is combined with AWS – both physical locations which are straightaway linked to the AWS global infrastructure, also with other AWS services. When a user seeks content that you are executing with CloudFront, the user is routed to the edge location that gives the lowest latency (time delay), so the content is offered with the foremost feasible performance. Amazon CloudFront runs smoothly with services covering AWS Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for your applications, and Lambda@Edge to execute custom code closer to customers’ users and to customize the user experience. Now Amazon CloudFront introduces 11 new Edge locations across the world, containing its first Edge location in Salt Lake City, Utah. The others are United States – Salt Lake City, Utah (New city within the CloudFront network), Boston, Massachusetts, Seattle, Washington, Phoenix, Arizona, Japan – Tokyo, India – Hyderabad x2, Bangalore x2, Delhi x2. To get entire list of CloudFront’s, refer to global locations