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Amazon CloudFront vs Charles

A side-by-side look at Amazon CloudFront and Charles. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

Online Services

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network service offered by AWS. It speeds up distribution of static and dynamic web content, like HTML, CSS, JS, media files, APIs, etc. by caching content at edge locations across the globe.

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Charles

Charles

Development

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

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