> With enough traffic, their edge servers will keep connections open to origin.
Except AWS CloudFront when used with a custom origin server (whole site acceleration) - their "clever" load distribution algorithm requires inordinate amounts of traffic for effective origin connection re-use.
I run multiple sites in the top 100k websites globally and am getting effectively zero origin connection re-use. Badgered them about it but all I got was a wontfix :-/
I'm glad it's not just me - I remember trying to improve site response times for a site using CloudFront and I thought I'd done the right thing as far a settings go, but got no improvement.
Except AWS CloudFront when used with a custom origin server (whole site acceleration) - their "clever" load distribution algorithm requires inordinate amounts of traffic for effective origin connection re-use.
I run multiple sites in the top 100k websites globally and am getting effectively zero origin connection re-use. Badgered them about it but all I got was a wontfix :-/
Sigh.