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 Route 53 integration with Cloudfront error (403)

I deployed a react app to AWS recently after following this tutorial, everything is working fine except when I wanted to integrate a custom domain that I bought recently using AWS Route 53, I get an error (403). For the integration of Route 53 with…
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Cloudfront and EC2

How do you setup Cloudfront in front of an EC2 instance? I'm interested in having users hit the Cloudfront url rather than the EC2 origin. So instead of hitting ec2-52-64-xxx-xxx.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com users would hit…
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Cloudfront CORS issue serving fonts on Rails application

I keep receiving this error message from the console when visiting my website: font from origin 'https://xxx.cloudfront.net' has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on…
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Restrict access to a particular Cloudfront distribution using IAM

I'm trying to give access to a specific IAM user to a particular Cloudfront distribution. I've tried with this Policy: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "Stmt1428659042000", "Effect":…
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How to set Cache-Control Header in amazon cloudfront?

I have a amazon cloudfront distribution that creates a 'origin' to my CDN. In my behavior, I set the Max TTL, Min TTL and default TTL. But my response header does't return the Cache-control header in my static files that are redirected. How to set…
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How to configure Query Params in AWS CloudFront

I have an AWS cloudfront ahead of an S3 bucket that contains my frontend app (https://myapp.com). When I go to https://myapp.com/experts?profession=carpenter through the navigation elements of my site (button in this case) everything works fine. But…
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How do you invalidate cache of index.html for a static site hosted on S3 with cloudfront?

So I have hosted my angular app on s3 with a cloudfront dist. I do file revision-ing (using grunt filerev) to make sure that I never get stale content. But, how should I version the index.html file. Its required because all other files are…
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Mysterious CloudFront "Bad request"

I've set up a new domain and web server, and a CloudFront distribution to serve it. CloudFront is successfully serving the site on its own domain: d1lnegrqin0up5.cloudfront.net I want mpe.io (without www) to go to the web server, and www.mpe.io to…
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S3 CORS, always send Vary: Origin

I am using an S3 bucket behind Cloudfront with CORS enabled. If the client makes a request with the Origin header, then S3 (and cloudfront) respond with a "Vary: Origin" header, however if the request is made without the Origin, header then the…
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Set a default cache control and expires for entire S3 bucket/CloudFront

I have an amazon S3 bucket with approximately 300K items in it that are used by a large website. I would like to set the expiration of all the objects that are served out of CloudFront from the S3 bucket so that they can be cached in the browser by…
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How to clear Amazon CloudFront Cache completely?

I made some changes to my origin server which now serves different data from same url. I tried to clear my cache completely by doing the following invalidation in CF UI: But this didn't work. How can I wipe off completely the Amazon CloudFront…
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cloudfront redirecting to origin instead of aliasing it

I'm using a Cloudfront distribution as a proxy for my Heroku server. Why? for these purposes. Anyway, my app has a force ssl rule on it. When I go to my cloudfront url, the origin being my heroku app url, i'm getting a 301 redirect to the origin,…
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Akamai vs CloudFront

What are the advantages of using Akamai vs. CloudFront? From what I've read, Akamai seems to be more expensive but they seem to have a larger network for their CDN. CloudFront on the other end is newer and Amazon even used Akamai for their…
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How do you configure S3 and Cloud Front to stream HTML5 video? Tried everything

I've tried many, many different configurations, files, encoding, browsers, etc..., but this is the simplest example that demonstrates the problem I am having. If you paste the url for the sample video for JSPlayer in FF 8.0.1, the video plays…
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When to use AWS CloudfrontWebDistribution and when to use AWS Cloudfront Distribution

I see in aws-cdk there are two constructs: CloudFrontWebDistribution Distribution Each have different props that do not look compatible with each other. I'm wondering which one to use?
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