CDNs Glossary Definition

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to distribute service spatially relative to end-users to provide high availability and high performance.

See also: CDN.

In web, data, cloud, and DevOps environments, this term helps teams describe application infrastructure, data flow, deployment practices, integration points, or operational tooling. It is relevant to how systems are built, hosted, versioned, monitored, and maintained.