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Upcoming Events

Webinar: Whole Site Delivery with Amazon CloudFront

Date: May 16th, 10:00AM – 11:00AM PDT
Details: In this webinar, we'll provide an overview on how you can use Amazon CloudFront to help architect your whole site and demonstrate how you can use Amazon CloudFront to help architect your site to deliver both static and dynamic content (portions of your site that change for each end-user). AWS Customers NPR and Toronto Star will also join us and share how they've use Amazon CloudFront to help architect their web sites. Register for the webinar>.
Join Amazon CloudFront at the CDN Summit and Streaming Media East Conference (Booth #114) May 20th-22nd at the Hilton NY.

Date: 20-22 May 2013
Where: Booth #114, Hilton New York 1335 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019
Details: Amazon CloudFront will be speaking on Whole Site Delivery at the CDN Summit on May 20th and will also have a booth at Streaming Media East (#114) on May 21st and 22nd. Stop by and visit with Amazon CloudFront staff and learn about Amazon Web Service's comprehensive set of secure and on-demand storage, archive, computing, transcoding, streaming, and application services.

If you haven't yet registered, you can use our VIP link to get a discounted full conference pass.
Webinar: Amazon CloudFront Office Hours

Date: June 19th, 2013 10:00AM – 11:00AM PDT
Details: In this webinar, join technical experts from Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery network, for an interactive “Office Hours” session. This session enables a technical audience the ability to interact directly with our team in the form of a live Q&A. Register for this webinar.

Past Events

Webinar: Amazon CloudFront Office Hours

Date: May 9th, 2013 10:00AM – 11:00AM PDT
Details: In this webinar, join technical experts from Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery network, for an interactive “Office Hours” session. This session enables a technical audience the ability to interact directly with our team in the form of a live Q&A. Register for this webinar.

Amazon CloudFront at NAB | Las Vegas | April 8th-11, 2013

Date: 8-11 April 2013
Where: Booth #SL 10405, Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Road, NV 89109
Details: Stop by and visit the Amazon Web Services booth (#SL 10405) at NAB from April 8-11th and learn about our comprehensive set of secure and on-demand storage, archive, computing, transcoding, streaming, and application services for media companies. We have several activities planned which include an AWS-sponsored cocktail party (April 8th from 4PM-6PM in our booth), daily office hour sessions, and Kindle Fire giveaways. You can also request a meeting with our team. Learn more.

If you haven't yet registered for NAB, you can use our VIP code for a free exhibit-only pass. Simply, enter LV5653 in the box on the NAB registration payment page where it asks you to enter the “Discount Code from a NAB Show Exhibitor or Partner”. Register soon as our NAB VIP code will expire on March 22nd, 2013.
Webinar: Amazon Cloudfront Office Hours

Date: Dec 18th, 9:00AM – 10:00AM PST
Details: In this webinar, join technical experts from Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery network, for an interactive “Office Hours” session. This session enables a technical audience the ability to interact directly with our team in the form of a live Q&A.
Webinar: Delivering Static and Dynamic Content Using Amazon CloudFront

Date: Dec 4th, 10:00AM – 11:00AM PST
Details: In this webinar delivered by the Amazon CloudFront product team, we'll provide an overview on how you can use Amazon CloudFront to help architect your site to deliver both static and dynamic content (portions of your site that change for each end-user). We’ll also have a Q&A session.
Digital Media in the AWS Cloud Sept. 19, 2012 Los Angeles, CA

Date: Sept 19, 2012 (10AM - 6PM PDT)
Place: Los Angeles, CA (live streamed via Amazon CloudFront)
Amazon CloudFront at Casual Connect July 24-26th, 2012 Seattle, WA

Date: July 24-26th, 2012
Place: Benaroya Hall Booth B29 and B30

AWS Happy Hour: Stop by and have drinks and hors d' oeuvres with AWS at the Diller Room on July 24th from 6pm-8pm. We'll also be raffling off a Kindle Fire. Please remember to bring your Casual Connect Conference badge. Read more about all of our activities at Casual Connect.

For more information and to register, please visit the Casual Connect Conference website.
Amazon CloudFront at Velocity Conference June 25-27th, 2012 Santa Clara, CA

Date: June 25-27th, 2012
Place: Santa Clara Convention Center (AWS will have a booth)
Amazon CloudFront Speaker: Nathan Dye, Software Development Manager for Amazon CloudFront, will be hosting a session at the Velocity Conference titled "Amazon CloudFront: Delivering Dynamic Content from the Edge" on Wednesday, 06/27/2012 at 3:50PM PDT.

For more information and to register, please visit the Velocity Conference website.

Amazon CloudFront at Content Delivery Summit May 14th, 2012 New York, NY

Date: May 14th, 2012
Time and Place: 9:00am-6:30pm EDT The New York Hilton | 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York
Keynote Speaker: Tal Saraf, GM, Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53
For more information and to register, please visit the Content Delivery Summit website.

Amazon CloudFront at Streaming Media East Booth #206 May 15-16th, 2012 New York, NY

Date: May 15th-16th, 2012
Place: The New York Hilton | 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York
Details:For more information and to register, please visit the Streaming Media East website.
Please stop by and say hello at our booth (#206) or at our demo titled Live Video Delivery with Amazon CloudFront on May 15th at 4:10pm EDT.

Demo: Live Video Delivery with Amazon CloudFront (with Adobe FMS 4.5)
Speaker: Tal Saraf,GM, Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53
Date: May 15th, 2012
Time and Place: 4:10am-4:30pm EDT
Description: See an overview and demo of Amazon CloudFront's improved live HTTP streaming support for both Flash-based and Apple iOS devices using Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 running on Amazon EC2. With this solution, you can easily and cost-effectively deliver your live video via AWS to multiple platforms and to a world-wide audience, while paying for the AWS resources you consume. At this session, you’ll also get a peek at some of our latest features.

Webinar: Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront using Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5

Webinar Topic: Webinar: Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront using Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 - May 4th, 2012
Speakers: Amazon CloudFront and Adobe
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM PDT
Date: May 04, 2012

See a recording of this webinar

In this session, speakers from Amazon CloudFront and Adobe will provide an overview and demo of Amazon CloudFront's improved live HTTP streaming support for both Flash-based and Apple iOS devices using Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 running on Amazon EC2. With this solution, you can easily and cost-effectively deliver your live video via AWS to multiple platforms and to a world-wide audience, while paying for the AWS resources you consume. Our improved live streaming solution uses the lower minimum content expiration period we recently announced for Amazon CloudFront. With this feature, both long-lived live video fragments and the frequently updated live manifest file can be cached at Amazon CloudFront edge locations. This helps you scale your live event without having to scale the origin infrastructure (Amazon EC2 instance running Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5).


Amazon CloudFront at NAB in Las Vegas April 16-19th, 2012

Please stop by and say hello at our booth #SL10315 , at our joint cocktail reception with Aspera, or at any of our three AWS seminars. Please visit our AWS at NAB page to learn more about our itinerary or to register for a seminar. A description of the seminar topics is available on the right hand side of this page.

Seminar: Amazon CloudFront Demo on Live Streaming at NAB Date: April 18th, 2012
Time and Place: 10:00am-12:00pm Marriott Hotel - Lake Mead Room on the 17th Floor
Topic : Amazon CloudFront Overview and Live Streaming Demo(Adobe FMS 4.5 and Smooth Live Streaming)
Speaker: Alex Dunlap, Senior Manager, Amazon CloudFront
For more information about the conference, please visit the NAB website.

Amazon CloudFront at AWS Summit April 19th, 2012 New York, NY

Attend this event and learn about the latest technology trends and some of the most interesting AWS Cloud use cases and workloads. You can choose between sessions to help you get started or dive deeper into specific solutions. You will also have an opportunity to meet with AWS experts and get your technical questions answered. The Amazon CloudFront team will be on hand to answer questions. Learn more about the AWS Summit here.

Date: April 19th, 2012
Time and Place: 8:30am-7:00pm The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York | 655 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001
Keynote Speaker: Dr Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon along with several AWS Customers
For more information and to register, please visit the AWS Summit - NYC events page.

Amazon CloudFront at Streaming Media West Nov 8-9th, 2011

Please stop by our booth and say hello. We will be in the Exhibit Hall in Booth 6 - the second booth on the right as you enter.

We will be hosting two speaking sessions.

Date: Nov 8th, 2011
Time and Place: 2:40-3:00 Exhibit Hall Demo Area
Topic : Live streaming using Adobe Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services
Speaker: Tal Saraf, GM, CloudFront and Route 53

Date: Nov 9th, 2011
Time and Place: 11:30-12:30 Pacific/Palisades Room
Topic : C202: Cloud Demos: Amazon CloudFront and Windows Azure
Speakers: Tal Saraf - GM, Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53; Chris Knowlton - Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

For more information about the conference, please visit Streaming Media West.

Amazon CloudFront Webinar Nov 3rd, 2011

Webinar Topic: Content Delivery using Amazon CloudFront
Speaker: Tal Saraf, GM, CloudFront and Route 53
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM PST
Date: Nov 3, 2011

In this webinar we will explore Amazon CloudFront – AWS’s content delivery network (CDN). Amazon CloudFront lets you deliver your content through a worldwide network of edge locations and automatically routes end-user requests to closest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. In this session, we will describe what the CloudFront service is, go over the benefits it provides to you and your customers, demo how the CloudFront service works, and finally, we’ll highlight some use cases describing how the CloudFront service is used by customers in the media& entertainment, gaming, and software downloads industries.

Update - Nov 5th, 2011: We will post a recording of the webinar shortly. Please see the presentation deck used for the webinar below.








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Key Features
Amazon CloudFront Supports Dynamic Content
Use Amazon CloudFront to deliver all of your content, including the dynamic portions of your site that change for each end-user.
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Live Smooth Streaming for Amazon CloudFront
Deliver live media over HTTP to both Microsoft Silverlight clients and Apple iOS devices.
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Live Streaming for Amazon CloudFront using Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5
Support for both Flash-based and Apple iOS devices using Amazon CloudFront with Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5
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Low TTLs
Configure a minimum expiration period (also known as “time-to-live” or TTL) to as short as 0 seconds.
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Media Streaming
Stream your media content from Amazon CloudFront.
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Private Content
Control who can download your files from Amazon CloudFront.
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Management Console
Amazon CloudFront works with the AWS Management Console. This web-based, point-and-click, graphical user interface lets you manage Amazon CloudFront without writing any code at all.
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Access Logs
Learn how, when, where and to whom your Amazon CloudFront content is being delivered with access logs.
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HTTPS Support
Deliver content over an HTTPS connection.
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Invalidation
Remove copies of a file from all Amazon CloudFront edge locations.
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Custom Origins
Deliver content from any origin server.
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Test Video Streaming
Streaming with Amazon CloudFront is easy: with only a few clicks on the AWS Management Console or a simple API call, you’ll be able to stream your content using a world-wide network of edge locations running Adobe’s Flash® Media Server. After you've set up your streaming distribution, you can test your video using our diagnostic client.

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