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> **Original source:** https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/zalora/?utm_source=openai

As a long-standing customer of [AWS Enterprise Support](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/enterprise/), Zalora consulted with AWS about testing Amazon CloudFront as a low-latency CDN. Key migration goals were lower cost, higher availability, and improved site response times. Particularly in Indonesia and the Philippines—where it has customers across thousands of islands—Zalora wanted to at least maintain site latency for website views and transactions.

With Zalora’s previous CDN provider, it was difficult to evaluate and procure new services because of the administrative and paperwork burden required to make changes. In contrast, Amazon CloudFront offered the opportunity to immediately start testing with no upfront commitment. Kenichi Otsuka, director of site reliability engineering at Zalora, ran a proof of concept (POC) comparing Amazon CloudFront to the incumbent CDN and another cloud CDN provider. “With Amazon CloudFront, response time analyses from each of the six Southeast Asian countries we operate in showed lower response times,” he confirms.

Satisfied with the performance of Amazon CloudFront after two POCs, Zalora signed a multi-year contract with AWS. The company also received dedicated support from the [AWS Professional Services](https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/) team, solution architects, technical account managers, and specialists, with a daily stand-up meeting to ensure migration success within its two-week timeline.

In addition to Amazon CloudFront, Zalora implemented AWS WAF to protect its web applications and Amazon Route 53 as a highly available domain name system (DNS) web service. The company uses [AWS Shield Advanced](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-advanced-summary.html), a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. Using Amazon CloudFront also provides the convenience of using [AWS Certificate Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/) (ACM) for public-facing SSL certificates without going through a lengthy procurement process. Otsuka says, “We optimized infrastructure configuration management in Terraform for AWS, which covers Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, Amazon Route53, and even SSL certificates.”