Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services.
Questions tagged [amazon-cloudfront]
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How to setup DigitalOcean DNS link to AWS CloudFront Distribution
I have a DNS setup with DigitalOcean for the domain
ghazanfarmir.me
What I want to do?
I would like a sub domain i.e. static.ghazanfarmir.me to be linked to the CloudFront Distribution, which then is linked to the S3 bucket containing all my…
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CloudFront Block Access
I'm testing out the CloudFront CDN but noticed that it will load the complete site. Is there a way to only allow the CDN to serve request that start with /media/* ?
I created a seperate behavior but won't let me delete the default one.
The other…
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S3 buckets : ACL read all permissions
I've received email from aws which says my aws s3 buckets are configured to allow read access to anyone on internet and have asked me to review the ACL and secure it. Basically my s3 buckets are being used as backend for cloudfront distribution.…
Shailesh Sutar
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Amazon Cloudfront Geo restriction does not block traffic or just Tor traffic
I am trying to use Amazon AWS Cloudfront Geo to whitelist few specific countries and block access from anywhere else. So far I did this:
1) enabled Geo restriction on the Cloudfront distribution in a whitelist mode, added (for a test) just Israel to…
Yuri
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Distributed large file hosting
We're hosting software installers (~60Mb) on S3 and serve them through CloudFront. We noticed that files non-being downloaded frequently get wiped from the CF cache and thus download slower than usual. I suspect that other CDN providers have the…
Ivan Nikitin
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Testing CloudFront in Europe
I'm trying to set up CloudFront so that European users can download from my S3 bucket quickly.
I've already set it up and am now testing. To test, I have created a Windows EC2 instance and based it in Frankfurt, I have then RDP'd into it and checked…
slaw
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Serving a React app with s3 and Cloudfront
I'm wondering if this is feasible. I'm thinking about serving a React app using s3 and Cloudfront.
Some of the routes are prerendered, and can be served as static index.html files. Other routes, on the other hand, need to be handled by client side…
Joseph Fakelastname
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How to route `/username/app#app-state` in CloudFront / S3
I have a web app, and I have path patterns that start with usernames, and the have the app and app state (or view). Like this:
example.com/username/app#list-view
Where the username will vary across users.
If I set this path pattern in CloudFront:…
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Avoid dynamic HTML pages on Amazon CloudFront CDN
I am thinking of using CloudFront distribution as CDN to server my images, css and js. I have a CloudFront distribution setup to point to the same directory in the server where my code is, just changing the subdomain to cdn so it'd be…
Sworup Shakya
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Securing CloudFront video on a SaaS platform
I have few videos which needs to be embedded in a SaaS LMS platform. Is there a possibility of making it available only if played from the SaaS platform.
I looked at the Origin Access Identity - they all operate on IP based restrictions - same thing…
Naveen Vijay
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Content of WordPress site is not being loaded from CloudFront
We have configure our WordPress website with AWS CloudFront. We used w3-total-cache plugin to configure CDN for CloudFront. All the static content has been already cached in CloudFront but somehow that content is not getting served from CloudFront.…
Murtuza Kolasavala
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Serve two static S3 websites from the same domain, based on geolocation
My current setup is that www.domain.com serves an S3-hosted static website via CloudFront, so www.domain.com CNAME points to the CloudFront distribution, which in turn points to the S3 static website URL. The CloudFront distribution has…
harsa_
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Redundant Cloudfront usage?
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…
WooiPin Teoh
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SSL on CloudFront fails test
I'm hosting a static website on S3/Cloudfront. I have enabled SSL using an Amazon provided SSL certificate.
Unfortunately, the setup seems to be failing the SSL tests.
Any idea what could cause this?
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Use SSL/SNI when uploading to S3 bucket from browser
My site allows users to upload files. We upload them directly to S3 using the typical Javascript+POST+Signature. This works well, but some local networks object to the CORS request - users have a whitelist of hosts they can connect to.
I'd love to…
