- 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
What are Edge Locations in AWS?
- 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