Amazon CloudFront
This page provides real-time availability and performance metrics for Amazon CloudFront. Content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data with low latency.
Dashboards & Latency Matrices
These pre-built availability and performance dashboards and latency matrices provide quick access to comprehensive historical and real-time analytics derived from our continuous cloud service testing. These reports offer insights into service availability patterns, performance trends, and latency characteristics across multiple cloud providers and regions. Each report includes time-bound analysis spanning from 1 day to 1 year, with customizable views, bookmarking, and URL-based sharing for collaborative analysis.
Dashboards
Detailed summaries of performance and availability featuring time series graphs, latency distribution charts, and summary metrics for cloud service control and data plane operations, and network performance.
Latency Matrices
Summarized statistical analysis providing median, mean, and percentile performance metrics in matrix format offering comparative views of latency and availability across services, regions, and time periods.
Tests Covered
Control Plane
Control plane operations test the responsiveness and reliability of cloud service APIs for creating, modifying, and deleting resources.
Operations Covered
create-distro
Creates a CloudFront distribution using cloudfront create-distribution with S3 origin and waits up to 1 hour for the distribution URL to become accessible with test content. Measures time from creation request until distribution is deployed and serving content.
delete-distro
Deletes a CloudFront distribution using cloudfront delete-distribution after waiting for the disabled state to propagate. Measures time from deletion request until distribution is removed.
invalidate-cache
Creates a cache invalidation using cloudfront create-invalidation and polls every 100ms for up to 1 hour for the targeted path to refresh and return updated content. Measures time from invalidation request until cached content is refreshed.
read-distro
Retrieves distribution configuration using cloudfront get-distribution. Measures API response time to fetch distribution configuration and status.
update-distro
Updates distribution configuration using cloudfront update-distribution to disable the distribution and polls every 1 second for up to 1 hour for status to change from InProgress to Deployed. Measures time from update request until distribution reaches stable state.
Networking / Last Mile
Cloud Looking Glass serves as a RIPE Atlas anchor host, providing test credits to orchestrate network testing from last-mile sources worldwide. Edge services like Amazon CloudFront are distributed by design, making it essential to measure performance from diverse geographic locations. Our last-mile testing leverages RIPE Atlas probes located in residential and business networks globally, providing real-world connectivity insights. This approach captures the true end-user experience by testing from actual ISP networks rather than data center locations, revealing routing inefficiencies, peering issues, and regional performance variations that impact service quality.
Regional Coverage
Networking / Synthetic
Synthetic monitoring complements last-mile testing by measuring Amazon CloudFront availability and performance from data center locations. While these tests don't capture end-user experience, they provide consistent baseline measurements from well-connected infrastructure. By testing from cloud service origins across multiple providers and regions, we can detect service outages, routing changes, and inter-provider connectivity issues. These data center vantage points offer stable, high-bandwidth connections that help isolate service-side issues from last-mile network variability.
Synthetic Test Origins
AWS EC2 us-east-1 → Amazon CloudFront / http
HTTP GET request to test web service availability. Validates that the HTTP service is responding correctly.
AWS EC2 us-east-1 → Amazon CloudFront / https
HTTPS GET request to test secure web service availability. Validates SSL/TLS connectivity and certificate validity.
AWS EC2 us-east-1 → Amazon CloudFront / tcping4
IPv4 TCP connection test. Validates IPv4 TCP port accessibility and connection establishment.
AWS EC2 us-east-1 → Amazon CloudFront / tcping6
IPv6 TCP connection test. Validates IPv6 TCP port accessibility and connection establishment.