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Is Amazon s3 required if am using Cloudfront for files

I am planning to host a website in Amazon Ec2 instant. I got some basics from the docs. But I have few confusions. If am using cloudfront for CDN, do i really need to server files from s3? The site ...
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Setting up CloudFront CDN on a cookieless root domain

I have recently set up an AWS S3 bucket for my site's static content, along w/ a CloudFront distribution for my CDN. I have this working using a sub-domain. However, after running YSlow, I realized ...
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Using Amazon s3 and Cloudfront what is the best way to set expires headers and cache expiration

We have a huge bucket of photos on s3. We add and remove from this daily but it currently has millions of photos that we don't want to rewrite or update if possible. We have not set any expires ...
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Amazon Cloudfront, S3 and EC2

I'm trying to use Amazon Cloudfront as a CDN provider but unsure of what other services are meant to be. Do I have to use S3 and EC2 as Virtual Server to host my files and change hosting provider in ...
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Why S3 website redirect location is not followed by CloudFront?

I have a website hosted on Amazon S3. It is the new version of an old website hosted on WordPress. I have set up some files with the metadata Website Redirect Locationto handle old location and ...
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Is Cloudfront inherently faster than S3 (without considering distance)?

Just a simple question but I can't find a definitive answer online. Of course cloudfront is good for serving content globally, but is the infrastructure there inherently different from s3, so tha even ...
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I get a 403 when requesting a JS file from CloudFront

This is new to me so please excuse me if I have no idea what I'm talking about (: I'm trying to set up my own CDN with CloudFront and S3 through a subdomain by adding a CNAME to that subdomain to ...
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S3 CORS through CloudFront not working in Firefox

I am using S3 CORS for serving fonts. If S3 domain name is used for serving fonts, it works in Firefox, but when CloudFront is used, it doesn't. Works with Google Chrome. My CORS configuration on S3 ...
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Creating url from the cloudfront aws

I have my js files which I have uploaded into the Amazon S3 and linked it with the Cloudfront. I got a url something like this : dxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net But opening that url in my browser ( I'm ...
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Is whitelisting a CNAME enough?

We are working on setting up a list of domain names we need to have whitelisted for educational institutions who use our site. We are using AWS S3 as well as cloudfront. In our cloud front, we ...
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Is CloudFront (backed by S3) a good way to serve user-uploaded pictures?

Is CloudFront (backed by S3) a good way to serve user-uploaded pictures? For example forum avatars. Or maybe there is a better way?
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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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CloudFront - Users requests static files non-stop to make your bill high?

I had this weird wondering once. If I am using CloudFront as my CDN, I pay per requests made on my static files. So here comes the wondering. Can one keep requesting the same file in a non-stop ...
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How to show a “linked from site X” placeholder instead of actual photo?

I’m hosting a bunch of photos on Amazon S3 and also running Amazon CloudFront for them. Also, I’m running a custom domain name. Now, in case someone tries to embed the image to another website, I’d ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Forcing CloudFront to pass-through the latest HTML file from S3

Background I'm hosting a static site on S3, with CloudFront over the top. The issue I have is with my HTML files. According to CloudFront's FAQ: Amazon CloudFront uses these cache control ...
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Webstats for large Amazon S3/Cloudfront logs?

I'm trying to find a way to parse our Amazon S3 access logs to get some webstats. I've been trying to use AWStats 7, but I got to the point of where after day 9 of a given month it can't process any ...
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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 ...
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Static website cname problem, cloudfront

Hey guys, one quick question. I've got a problem setting the cname for my domain http://snaremedia.com . I use godaddy and set the www cname to point at my cloudfront url, but currently my domain only ...
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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, ...
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Using .htaccess to serve files from Amazon S3 CloudFront

My ideal setup would be to take a current clients site, upload a .htaccess with a regex inside, that would match the URI, and if it finds a certain file extension, it would use the same path, but with ...
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How can I limit CloudFront downloads

I'm looking to use Amazon's CloudFront to host some content in the near future. Currently, I'm keeping it very simple and I'm just uploading my content to S3 and then making a distribution available ...
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How frequently do Amazon CloudFront objects expire?

The answer I can find in the FAQ is as follows An object stays in an edge location until it expires. After the object expires, CloudFront must go back to the origin server the next time that ...
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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 ...