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Amazon CloudFront vs Jekyll

A side-by-side look at Amazon CloudFront and Jekyll. 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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Jekyll

Jekyll

Development

Jekyll is a static site generator that allows you to convert your plain text into static websites. It's commonly used for blogs. Key features include: creation of blog posts and web pages with Markdown, templates for layout, support for taxonomies for better organization, and easy customization

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