Over the last 6+ years, I have deployed Kentico to Azure a lot. A whole lot. Amazingly, I had never tried out deploying to Amazon AWS. In an effort to broaden my horizons and bring info to others, I decided to deploy Kentico to Amazon’s cloud platform. In this blog, I’ll cover my experiences and results.

When leveraging a CDN (azure or cloudfront in this case), we know that the default expiration for assets is around 72 hours. This doesn't work well for a site with constant CMS activity and lots of...