What is an Edge Location in AWS?

Edge Locations are where end users access AWS services with minimal latency, used mostly for serving content - such as Route53 or CloudFront.

Ram
February 19, 2022
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An Edge Location is a datacenter owned by a trusted partner of AWS which has a direct connection to AWS Network.
Edge Locations serve requests for CloudFront and Route53
Requests to these services will be automatically routed to the nearest Edge Location
S3 Transfer Accelerator and API Gateway Endpoint traffic also use Edge Location network
It allows for low latency of services no matter where the end user is geographically located

A site that CloudFront uses to cache copies of your content for faster delivery to users at any location.
– https://wa.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/2020-07-02T19-33-23/wat.concept.edge-location.en.html

Ram

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