Performance is one of the most important things in websites, and there is no need to explain reasons. Fast web pages lead your website to better search engine rankings while increasing traffic for your website.

However, almost every large scale websites contain many large files, and these files can have a significant impact on your website’s speed.
As a solution, most developers use Gzip compression to reduce HTML, javascript, and CSS files, and Gzip can reduce file sizes by almost up to 90%.

In this article, I will discuss how Gzip works and how easily you can configure it using AWS S3 and CloudFront with an example.

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