Tim Dupree

Today Amazon rolled out support for custom origins with their CloudFront CDN. Before this, you could only serve content through CloudFront that was stored on S3. Now, you can specify a custom origin server (the source that CloudFront initially goes to for a requested asset) to serve out files through CloudFront.

This is awesome news because it means that you can provide dynamic resources that have a long cache time and do not change often. Additionally, it looks like this may open up some new ways to more intelligently serve gzipped files to users (currently a pain to do with the S3 implementation). I look forward to playing around with this to see how I can make better use of my CloudFront CDN.

Check out the official post by Amazon here.