CTD304: How Mapbox Uses the AWS Edge to Deliver Fast Maps for Mobile, Cars, and Web Users Worldwide

Ian Ward, Platform and Security Engineer from Mapbox, discusses how the AWS global edge network helps improve the availability and performance of delivering hundreds of billions of map tiles to hundreds of millions of end users across the globe on mobile devices, in cars, and over the web. In this session, Ian shares insights on how Mapbox manages day-to-day edge operations using Amazon CloudFront logs, dashboards, and ad hoc queries, and how Mapbox has configured CloudFront with dozens of behaviors and origins to customize their content delivery. Mapbox has grown from using a single AWS region to using several regions, so Ian also explains how his team uses Amazon Route 53 and open source tools to simplify complexity around regional failover, and how Mapbox leverages AWS WAF to deter attacks and abuse.