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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.