Please speak to your CSM if you would like AWS CloudFront enabled.
Amazon CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of web content, such as .html, .css, .js, and image files, to users. CloudFront delivers content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. When a user requests content that is served with CloudFront, the request is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency (time delay), so that content is delivered with the best possible performance.
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If the content is already in the edge location with the lowest latency, CloudFront delivers it immediately.
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If the content is not in that edge location, CloudFront retrieves it from the origin - the Vuture web server.
CloudFront speeds up the distribution of the content by routing each user request through the AWS backbone network to the edge location that can best serve the content. Typically, this is a CloudFront edge server that provides the fastest delivery to the viewer. Using the AWS network dramatically reduces the number of networks that your users' requests must pass through, which improves performance. Users get lower latency—the time it takes to load the first byte of the file—and higher data transfer rates.
We can also expect increased reliability and availability because copies of files (also known as objects) are now held (or cached) in multiple edge locations around the world.
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AWS CloudFront is enabled on the vanity URL domain - where recipients load emails from.
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Files are cached for 24 hours.
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When a change is made to a file in Vuture, an invalidation request is sent to AWS CloudFront which immediately “busts” the cached file and the updated file is retrieved from the Vuture web server - ready to be served to end users.
We advise clients not to use CloudFlare on Vuture URL/DNS as it can cause problems with Vuture functionality.
- It interferes with our monitoring solution so we cannot effectively monitor your Vuture instance.
- On many ocassions we have seen it block legitimate traffic - often stopping Vuture working enitrely.
- If you are must use Cloudflare, please ensure you whitelist our data centre IPs https://support.vutu.re/s/article/360020561037-Data-Centre-IP-Addresses and monitoring IP 54.77.188.218 to try and minimise impact.
