Earth Networks on AWS - CloudFront Success Story

Published on Dec 21, 2012

Earth Networks manages and operates sensor networks that collect real-time weather and lightning data. The company then distributes observations from these sensors in the form of current conditions, forecasts and severe weather alerts to a wide variety of users across their award-winning WeatherBug branded products that include mobile apps, the desktop app and the website www.weatherbug.com. Earth Networks uses Amazon CloudFront's dynamic content features such as low time-to-live, query strings, and cookies to customize their users' experience by distributing local information to millions of users in near-real time. With Amazon CloudFront, Earth Networks saved over 50% in CDN costs and anticipates 20% reduction in Amazon EC2 origin instances, without any reduction in performance compared to their previous CDN provider and without the need to write any customized code. For more information on delivering dynamic content with Amazon CloudFront, please visit: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/dynamic-content/