CloudFront benchmarking for dynamic content

Question

A customer is trying to test webpage response time using CloudFront for dynamic content . However, they are not getting the expected results while trying to query it from South India (Bangalore) region. Application is hosted in Mumbai region .

Is there a better way of benchmarking CloudFront performance for dynamic content given that your origin is not  located too far away from the client?

Response time while querying the CF distribution  VS EC2 public DNS (without CF)

curl --location -w "@curl.breakdown" -s http://*****.cloudfront.net

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time_total: 0.102868

curl --location -w "@curl.breakdown" -s  http://ec2-****.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com

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time_total: 0.008543

Accepted Answer

The purpose of CDN is to quickly distribute in multiple regions. If the customer is only in a specific geographical location, there may be no performance advantage compared with EC2 with a public network address, because the client may be closer to the region than to the Cloudfront pop distance. They can use third-party tools to test in multiple locations, and may get better results.

CloudFront benchmarking for dynamic content

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