AWS announces new edge location in Egypt
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This article announces that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its presence in Egypt by launching a new Amazon CloudFront edge location in Cairo. The key points covered are:
- Customers in Egypt can expect up to 30% improvement in latency on average for data delivered through the new edge location.
- The new edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, AWS's content delivery network (CDN).
- All Amazon CloudFront edge locations are protected against DDoS threats by AWS Shield.
- Additional security layers like AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) can be enabled to protect against web exploits and bot attacks.
- Traffic from the new edge location is included within the Middle East region pricing for CloudFront.
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