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CDNs for Static Assets

Discussions focus on recommending CDNs like Cloudflare, CloudFront, and Fastly to cache and serve static files, images, and assets efficiently, often in combination with S3 or other storage solutions for better performance and cost savings.

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dawie • May 18, 2012 • View on HN

Won't Cloudflare help by caching static stuff and providing the CDN?

ushakov • Jul 29, 2022 • View on HN

you could use Fastly or AWS Cloudfront

_def • Mar 24, 2020 • View on HN

"Utilize Cloudflare’s CDN to serve files"

toomuchtodo • Jan 6, 2015 • View on HN

Might as well serve it from Amazon S3 with Cloudflare in front of it.

brettv2 • Mar 29, 2024 • View on HN

why wouldn't you just serve them via a CDN?

mfkp • Jan 13, 2015 • View on HN

Meh, I think cloudfront can handle it. That's what CDNs are for.

tyingq • Dec 10, 2020 • View on HN

Opportunity for Cloudflare or some other CDN?

shepherdjerred • Jul 22, 2021 • View on HN

Just put your S3 bucket behind a CloudFront CDN and you're golden :)

nothasan • Jul 12, 2021 • View on HN

Pretty sure they use CloudFront

mazamats • Oct 17, 2020 • View on HN

You don’t even need the S3 Bucket... Cloudflare will work as a transparent proxy and will cache all static assets.