Amazon has announced yet another Cloud based service called CloudFront. What is it? The new service is designed specifically to allow developers and businesses to distribute content anywhere in the world.

CloudFront integrates with the Amazon S3 service and uses a global network of edge locations to create distribution points. The content is routed to the nearest edge point automatically.

Like other Amazon services there are no contracts, you simply pay as you go, with starting prices $0.17 per GB if you are in the US or up to $0.22 in Japan.

You even get a peak distribution speed of 1000 megabits per second and can add more with 2 business days notice.

How does it work?

The whole process seems very simple.

• With CloudFront you store your original files in the Amazon S3 bucket(s).
• Create a distribution using a custom CreateDistribution API. This is linked back to your distribution domain name.
• You create links to your objects in your web site or web application.

This system will now enable businesses to distribute audio & video and files to customers without having to have expensive high speed internet links to their datacentres or rely on second rate mirror services around the world.

If you need storage, a server and the ability to rapidly deploy services or files why would you try and do it all yourself?

Do you use Amazon Infrastructure services, what do you think?