By Judy Mottl
November 26, 2008

CloudFront, a self-serve, pay-as-you-go content delivery network service, aims to put Amazon in the company of tenured content delivery network (CDN) providers like Akamai, Limelight and CDNetworks.

Currently in beta, CloudFront is aimed at users needing frequent access to Web site components, developers distributing software and small businesses publishing media files. The offering builds on Amazon’s wider efforts to deploy a number of cloud-based services for application developers.

“Customers asked for a way to globally distribute most frequently accessed content,” Adam Selipsky, Amazon Web Services’ vice president of product management and developer relations, said in a statement. “CloudFront provides low-latency, inexpensive content delivery and simple integration with Amazon S3.”

The move seeks to capitalize on growing efforts by enterprises to seek …

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