What does Amazon CloudFront provide?
Automatic scaling for all resources to power an application from a single unified interface
Secure delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users globally with low latency
Ability to directly manage traffic globally through a variety of routing types, including latency-based routing, geo DNS, geoproximity, and weighted round robin
Automatic distribution of incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and AWS Lambda functions
Explanations:
Amazon CloudFront does not provide automatic scaling for resources; that functionality is typically associated with services like AWS Auto Scaling. CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) focused on speeding up the delivery of web content.
Amazon CloudFront is designed for secure delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users globally, ensuring low latency through a vast network of edge locations. This is its primary function as a CDN.
The ability to manage traffic globally through various routing types is a feature of Amazon Route 53, not CloudFront. Route 53 handles DNS routing and traffic management.
Automatic distribution of incoming application traffic across multiple targets is a function of the Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service, not CloudFront. ELB is responsible for distributing traffic to various resources like EC2 instances and Lambda functions.