Joined April 2013
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C. Bess

Software developer that usually designs (UI/UX) stuff well. at USAA
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Dallas
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Posted to Nginx as proxy for Amazon S3 over 1 year ago

@mikhailov Correct, S3 is not a CDN. However, my point was that you reduce the scalability by having all traffic diverge to your server. Meaning, you take on the entire load of S3 traffic, thereby sidestepping its ability to scale requests. Aren't you taking the hit for bandwidth and CPU load to serve through nginx? Nginx has to serve and buffer the request to the client. Thanks for the clarification.

Posted to Nginx as proxy for Amazon S3 over 1 year ago

Doesn't this mean that you have reduced/removed the scalability or CDN features of S3? Since all requests now go through the nginx server. You are effectively using S3 to store the files, then piping them through this nginx server.

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