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I'm curious on my setup regarding usage of cloudfront. Currently I've this setup for my website.

Internet_traffic <-> WAF <-> Cloudfront <-> ELB <-> EC2s

I've wordpress running on EC2, since there's cloudfront before ELB, does it make any sense to use a separated cloudfront distribution again in the wordpress hosted in the EC2?

Cname for cloudfront before ELB: www.example.com
Cname for cloudfront used in EC2: cdn.example.com

Thanks!

WooiPin Teoh
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There's no need to use a alternate CF distribution for static assets if the entire site is already behind a cacheing CF configuration.

However, reasons you might want to do that:

  • Allow for a different CDN for static assets (ie Fastly / Akamai etc)
  • Use a 'cookieless' domain for static assets for greater efficiency
Jason Martin
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  • Thanks for the advise, I can now see the benefit/purpose of using another CF in the EC2, http request sent without original cookies, better user exp – WooiPin Teoh Dec 23 '16 at 07:24