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CDN

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In cloud computing & devops, CDN means: Short for content delivery network: a network of servers around the world that keeps copies of images, videos and pages close to users so they load faster.

In Turkish: içerik dağıtım ağı, CDN

How it is used

Said letter by letter. Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly and Amazon CloudFront are well-known CDNs. Content is served from 'edge locations'. After a change you may need to 'purge' or 'invalidate' the CDN cache.

Example sentences

  1. After we put the images behind a CDN, page load time in Turkey dropped by a second.

  2. Users still see the old logo, so please purge the CDN cache.

Common collocations

  • CDN cache
  • purge the CDN
  • behind a CDN
  • edge location
  • latencyThe time a request or piece of data takes to travel through a system and get a response, usually measured in milliseconds.
  • object storageA type of cloud storage that keeps files as objects, each with a unique key and metadata, and lets you read and write them over an HTTP API.
  • DNSShort for Domain Name System: the internet's directory that turns names like example.com into the IP addresses computers use to connect.
  • egressData leaving a network, for example from a cloud provider to the internet or to another region. Cloud providers usually charge for egress but not for incoming data.

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