What is CloudFront used for?

CloudFront is primarily utilized for content delivery, focusing on reducing latency by caching content at various edge locations around the world. When users request content, such as videos, images, or scripts, CloudFront delivers it from the nearest edge location, ensuring faster load times and enhancing the overall user experience. By caching copies of content closer to end-users, it alleviates the load on the origin server, thus improving performance and reducing bandwidth costs.

This specific use of edge locations to efficiently deliver content distinguishes CloudFront from other options listed. While data backup and recovery is critical for cloud operations, this function does not relate to the role that CloudFront plays. Similarly, database management and scaling pertain to services like Amazon RDS or DynamoDB rather than content delivery networks. Secure file uploads relate more to services focused on storage or data transfer, like Amazon S3 or AWS Transfer Family, rather than to the content delivery realm where CloudFront excels.