Application development, APIs, IoT, telemetry

For inbound data and API calls from devices, responsiveness and reliability of short, bursty requests can make or break real-world interactions and device behavior. In addition, the emerging world of voice assistants, smart homes, and other applications that require a low latency connection to cloud resources to process responses or actions can benefit from transaction acceleration through the CDN, especially when devices may be deployed on transient, congested, or lossy connections.

Case study: Slack uses Amazon CloudFront for secure API acceleration

Slack improved their API security and realized an approximately 300ms faster response time with Amazon CloudFront. The average latency around the world to Slack.com dropped from 90ms to 15ms. The team uses Amazon CloudFront to accelerate their API globally. It gives them flexibility to apply various security measures at the edge.