Questions tagged [amazon-cloudfront]

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.

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Cherokee force gzip compression for HTTP/1.0

I am using CloudFront with a Cherokee origin server for static files. Cherokee serves gzipped content for direct browser requests without any problem. But when CloudFront requests content, Cherokee serves it uncompressed because CloudFront is…
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Do I need a ssl certificate if just pointing my domain to Cloudfront?

I have a website running on a domain (e.g site.com). I have an additional domain(e.g sitecdn.com) which basically points to Amazon Cloudfront for delivery. Amazon Cloudfront in turn basically fetches the data from the main domain (site.com). I use…
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Max number of viewers for different types of Flash Media Server instances

I'm looking on Adobe Flash Media Server webiste, under Instance Types For each type of instance, it lists the "Simultaneous connections". If the instance I want lists "1000 RTMFP", does that mean that I can only have a maximum of 1000 people viewing…
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Amazon CloudFrount on EC2

I know that i can mount s3 buckets with s3fs on EC2 instance. So i have next question can i somehow mount Amazon Cloud Front (my S3 buckets files) in EC2 instance?
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S3 to cloudfront edge location vs cloudfront to end user transfer ratio

We host videos in amazon S3 and use cloudfront to deliver them. Here is last months numbers: 4,2 TB total traffic from cloudfront to end user. 4 TB of this is in europe, the rest mainly in the US. This cost us $512. All as expected. In addition we…
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How to set cache control headers

How do I go about setting the cache control headers for specific files on my web server? I'm running a LAMP environment. I don't want to set the cache control sitewide, just for a few files. I am using CloudFront to distribute content from one of…
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Does anyone have a config to process AWS CloudFront/S3 logs with AWStats (or similar sw)?

I don't want to give an external company like s3stat access to my logs. I know that AWS logs S3 and Cloud Front in a format readable by AWStats. Has anyone used AWSats to analyze them? S3stat used to offer a hosted version of their software that…
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Preload/Prime Amazon Cloud Front CDN before move.

I am changing CDNs and I would like to preload some content to AWS Cloud Front so that my origin server is not hammered during that transition. Any tips?
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Can you have private URLs in Amazon's CloudFront?

In Amazon's S3 storage system you can have sort of private URLs using a special query string and expiring the link after a while. Is such a private system possible using Amazon's CloudFront, which is based on S3?
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Can you have public and private files on the same Cloudfront distribution?

We have files serving through the Cloudfront CDN and we need to have some files to be public and some others to be private. One option would be to have two different buckets and distributions but it is not a great solution so I was wondering if you…
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Set TTL for CloudFront files to 1 year

I know we can set the expires header to Amazon S3, but how do I set it for a cloudfront file ? I've read that we can set the TTL from 24hrs to 1hr, but I want to set it for 1 year.
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Best way to implement Amazon CloudFront for established website

Some of you may have a solution for this, and I need to hear it. Basically, you have a website, a lot of categories ( games, blog etc ). The idea would be to use Amazon CDN for images, flv's, javascript js, and css. What's the best way to implement…
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What is the difference between S3 Multi-Region Access Points and AWS CloudFront?

Can anyone explain the difference between S3 Multi-Region Access Points and AWS CloudFront? The documentation for a multi-region access point states: Multi-Region Access Points offer a global S3 hostname that provides access to multiple S3 buckets…
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Cloudfront caching resources even though response headers should prevent it

I have recently setup a Cloudfront distribution with the following behaviour cache policy: TTL settings: Minimum TTL (seconds): 0 Maximum TTL (seconds): 31536000 Default TTL (seconds): 0 Cache Keys: Headers - None Cookies - None Query strings -…
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Can't point my subdomain address to CloudFront distribution (using S3 + CF + Route 53)

[Jump to bottom to see updates and latest attempts] First of all, I apologize if I misuse terminology here. I work as FE developer and this area on networking and setting up domains and aws services is really not my strongest. I took this task as a…