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Published inSep 2023
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Dr. Logan Song
Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Understanding the Amazon CDN

The Amazon CDN is called Amazon CloudFront (CF). It is a global delivery service that leverages edge locations to securely deliver content with low latency and high speed. CF is integrated with AWS cloud services, and has the following features:

  • It is a global network of edge locations that cache and deliver content (such as web pages, videos, and software downloads) to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
  • It can be used to distribute both static and dynamic content from AWS and non-AWS origin servers, such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and on-premises servers.
  • It offers features such as content compression, SSL/TLS encryption, and custom domain names, which help improve the security, reliability, and performance of applications.
  • It has a pay-as-you-go pricing model, with no upfront costs or minimum fees. The cost is based on the amount of data transferred, the number of requests made, and the edge locations used...
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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