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CDN Overview

KakaoCloud CDN is a Content Delivery Network service that provides large-scale web content to many users quickly and reliably. CDN provides excellent performance and safety even under large-scale traffic, helping various businesses and individual users experience web content in an optimized environment.

Purpose and use cases

Users can utilize KakaoCloud CDN services to improve web performance, strengthen security, improve availability, and improve user experience in various industries and services.

  • Accelerate websites worldwide
  • Media and entertainment streaming
  • Game server acceleration
  • API and microservice acceleration
  • Content distribution and load balancing

Features

Fast and stable content transmission

  • Utilizes a cache server to provide web content more quickly and reliably to users
  • Improves web page loading speed and responsiveness even under large-scale web traffic

Supports caching for various types of web content

  • When a user requests content, CDN reduces loading time by providing content from a cache server that contains the content.
  • No direct requests are made to the origin server, and the distributed processing of the CDN enables stable transmission even in large-scale traffic situations.

Improved content transfer security

  • Supports HTTPS protocol and provides secure connection using SSL certificate
  • Content provided from CDN is safely delivered through data encryption and authentication process

Getting started

For detailed usage guides on CDN, please refer to How-to Guides. If you are new to KakaoCloud, start with the Start section.