This blog was co-authored by Manchun Yao, Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Snapchat is a popular app used by hundreds of millions of people around the world to communicate with their close friends and family. Snapchat’s focus is on enabling a fast and fun way to communicate by building features such as augmented reality (AR) Lenses, Maps, Bitmoji and Spotlight. The content is primarily visual, such as photos and short videos, often enhanced with AR effects and filters. This post explains how Snapchat used Amazon CloudFront and CloudFront Origin Shield to improve both download and upload experiences for users located farther away from the Amazon S3 content origins.
CloudFront is the AWS content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, images, video, and APIs for your applications globally with low latency and high transfer speeds. CloudFront uses edge locations (also known as points of presence (PoPs)) to cache and deliver content…
