Questions tagged [amazon-cloudfront]

Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.

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AWS Cloudfront for VPC/VPN

Does AWS allow usage of Cloudfront for websites usage, eg:- caching web pages. Website should be accessible within corporate VPN only. Is it a good idea to cache webpages on cloudfront when using Application restricted within one network?
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Creating Signed URLs for Amazon CloudFront

Short version: How do I make signed URLs "on-demand" to mimic Nginx's X-Accel-Redirect behavior (i.e. protecting downloads) with Amazon CloudFront/S3 using Python. I've got a Django server up and running with an Nginx front-end. I've been getting…
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Are there any difference between amazon cloudfront and amazon s3 transfer acceleration?

I have read documents about them, but I don't know their difference exactly. could you let me know what's the difference?
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Amazon S3 Redirect Rule - Preserve Query Params

I noticed Amazon S3 Redirect rule - GET data is missing but after following the accepted answer my query params still are not being preserved. I have a site that uses React and React Router, meaning I have several URLs that load identical HTML and…
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Creating an S3 bucket policy that allows access to Cloudfront but restricts access to anyone else

I have the following policy: { "Version": "2008-10-17", "Id": "PolicyForCloudFrontPrivateContent", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "Stmt1395852960432", "Action": "s3:*", …
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How to get started with web caching, CDNs, and proxy servers?

I'm newbie programmer building a startup that I (naturally) hope will create a large amount of traffic. I am hosting my django project on dotcloud, which is on Amazon EC2. I have some streaming media (Http though, not rmtp) so the dotcloud guys…
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Getting 403 (Forbidden) when loading AWS CloudFront file

I'm working on a video app and storing the files on AWS S3, using the default URL like https://***.amazonaws.com/*** works fine but I have decided to use CloudFront which is faster for content delivery. Using CF, I keep getting 403 (Forbidden) using…
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What is difference between Pre-Signed Url and Signed Url?

I intend to private object in public bucket, thus restricting access to object, not other objects in bucket. And I want to setup CloudFront to serve content with Signed URLs. Now in AWS S3 documentation, I see two different terms, one is Pre-signed…
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Resize images on the fly in CloudFront and get them in the same URL instantly: AWS CloudFront -> S3 -> Lambda -> CloudFront

TLDR: We have to trick CloudFront 307 redirect caching by creating new cache behavior for responses coming from our Lambda function. You will not believe how close we are to achieve this. We have stucked so badly in the last step. Business case: Our…
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Route53 and Cloudfront The request could not be satisfied?

I just want to serve my s3 files on cdn.mydomain.com So I create cloudfront distribution which is working fine on https://dxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/test.jpg - I get the image. And now I want to associate my domain at cdn.domain.com with cloudfront in…
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Amazon S3 Cloudfront Deployment Best Practice

Our current plan for a site is to use Amazon's Cloudfront service as a CDN for asset files such as CSS, JavaScript, and Images, and any other static files. We currently have 1 bucket in S3 that contains all of these static files. The files are…
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Allow Cloudfront Globally on NoScript

So Amazon's Cloudfront CDN is ubiquitous, and as a NoScript user, it can be a little frustrating having to allow every "########.cloudfront.net" on different sites. Does anyone now how to create an ABE rule in NoScript to allow any script coming…
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Why isn't 'Vary: Origin' response set on a CORS miss?

When making a CORS request, if the requested Origin is on the list of allowed origins, the response contains both the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, and the Vary: Origin header. The Vary: Origin telling onward CDNs etc that the response was…
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AWS - Cloud formation Script to create S3 bucket and Distribution

I am working on the AWS creation of the bucket and distribution using the scripts. I have created a script and running the stack template script in AWS cloud formation console. I am creating the bucketpolicy for S3 bucket using the script and…
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Disabling Cache for CloudFront

I am using my own domain to serve HTTPS s3 bucket via CloudFront. I don't want it to cache since its for QA environment. I'm wondering how could i achieve this. Is it by Using Origin Cache Headers or Customize with 0 Time To Live?
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