Amazon Web Services: for enterprise forums hosted on AWS: provides cloud servers and services for hosting and backup; distributes content, like images and website files, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are; Amazon Web Services: for forums hosted in any of our data centers: stores site backups and user-uploaded files; stores and distributes content, like images and website files, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are
Content Delivery Network: hosts impersonal generic avatars (e.g. the letter "A" on a red background) and common emoji, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are