Amazon CloudFront - Support For Dynamic Content

Re:Amazon CloudFront - Support For Dynamic Content by kennu on Monday May 14, 2012 @04:52AM (#3970086)

It sounds like being able to run a bunch of Varnish servers to cache stuff at edge locations around the world. I wonder if it really works that way or do you have to change your web app a lot to work with it?

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Re:Amazon CloudFront - Support For Dynamic Content by tyler on Monday May 14, 2012 @08:16AM (#3970677)

If that's what you're after you might want to check out Fastly. We're a CDN entirely based on Varnish, with all the features that implies.

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Re:Amazon CloudFront - Support For Dynamic Content by giltotherescue on Monday May 14, 2012 @12:32PM (#3971779)

I implemented exactly this for our application about a year ago. We managed to speed up the average backend response times for the entire site by about 500ms. Unfortunately, the cost of the edge servers + the anycast routing tech from a third party vendor was more than the business benefit we saw.

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