Edge Location
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Section titled “Concept”Edge Locations are small AWS sites spread across cities around the world, used to deliver content to users quickly. They are not Regions or Availability Zones, and you usually don’t run your own servers there. Mainly, Amazon CloudFront (a CDN) stores copies of content there (cache). When a user makes a request, the answer comes from the nearest Edge Location instead of going all the way to the main Region. Amazon Route 53 (a DNS service) also uses Edge Locations.
Simple example
Section titled “Simple example”A company’s main warehouse is in Chattogram. But it has a small depot in every district, so customers get their products quickly. An Edge Location is one of those small depots.
Why it’s needed
Section titled “Why it’s needed”If the Region is far away, a website loads slowly. Serving images, videos and website files from a nearby Edge Location gets them to users much faster.
Where it’s used
Section titled “Where it’s used”CloudFront (fast content delivery) and Route 53 (domain names) use Edge Locations. You cannot run your own servers there.
Azure equivalent
Section titled “Azure equivalent”Azure Front Door / CDN edge locations
Related
Section titled “Related”Learn more
Section titled “Learn more”For details and the latest information, see the official documentation: