Questions tagged [amazon-cloudfront]
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services.
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Redirect with CloudFront but changing URL
I have an S3 static website and I want to redirect all the requests to the index page. So if you go to mysite.com/this_doesnt_exist it should redirect to mysite.com.
I was able to configure this ...
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Jenkins with nginx on cloudfront
I have setup Jenkins on an EC2 instance with nginx as a reverse proxy. Then I went ahead and setup Cloudfront so I could get SSL and have a nice build.mydomain.com address.
now when I go to build....
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AWS CloudFront Data Transfer Out
I want to use CloudFront to deliver files(each file size varies from 500 MB to 1 GB) for my users. Pricing for "Regional Data Transfer Out to Internet (per GB)" for India is mentioned as $0.170/GB. ...
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Is there a need for WAF in static website front with REST API?
I have two webistes
www.mysite.com. -->hosted on s3 , served via Cloudfront static single page App.
Then I have api.mysite.com , which the front end uses.
My company is using WAF solution from ...
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Understanding AWS Cloudfront's origin access identifiers
I do not really understand the security behind AWS Cloudfront's OAI. The only thing it does is switch the bucket's domain.
Instead of accessing the bucket with https://s3.amazonaws.com/[Bucket]/* it ...
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Difference between wildcard/no wildcard when invalidating a CloudFront distribution
The following is an example of a script that executes during our deployment process to invalidate a CloudFront distribution. The goal is to just invalidate everything in the entire distribution, so we ...
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Cloudfront with s3 file updates
I have an EC2 server with a website that allows logged-in users to upload very large files via a form for later download (these files are placed in a non-public s3 bucket). I want to use Cloudfront ...
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AWS CloudFront - using custom domains
I am a bit confused by Amazons CloudFront pricing structure.
So I want to use CloudFront to serve assets from my S3 bucket, with a domain like assets.domain.com and I want to use secured urls like ...
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Configure AWS Cloudfront to log to S3 bucket in another AWS account
I have some AWS Cloudfront distributions spread out across different AWS accounts.
I'd like to store the access logs from these distributions in a single S3 bucket in a single AWS account.
This is ...
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Releasing Elastic IP on EC2 had Cloudfront stop working
I had reached the limit of Elastic IP allocations in my AWS account. I have an Elastic Beanstalk app that is being served over Cloudfront. I thought since the app's CNAME was mapped to Cloudfront's ...
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Editable URL Rewrite Map for CloudFront/S3 Website using Lambda@Edge
I'm migrating a static website from IIS to Amazon S3, using CloudFront for https. The old site used the URL Rewrite module and had 301 redirect maps with over 200 entries. Here is an example:
example....
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Cloudfront how to failover between multiple custom origins?
I have a Cloudfront distribution and two origin domains that are not hosted in AWS.
I want to failover to the second domain if a file is not found in the first domain.
I've created two behaviours, ...
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How to map subdomain in CloudFront to the same name in S3?
I have been searching for a way to do the following if someone can enlighten me would be greatly appreciated.
e.g. would the following mappings be possible in a single CloudFront instance?
feature-a....
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how to set up a waf via an amazon cloudfront cdn to an external site
I have a site hosted on a cloud foundry platform as a service.
The PAAS does not come with a WAF out of the box and one of our security requirements is that we must have a WAF.
Can I create an AWS ...
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How to block a request which does not has a header using Amazon Web Services
My application back-end was laid on AWS Lambda and exposing API's using API Gateway. And forntend on CloudFront. I want to block a request which does not has a header using AWS service. Can anyone ...
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AWS Cloudfront Distribution with Cross-region EC2 instances with HTTPS domain
I have same website setup(example.com) on 2 EC2 instances in Sydney & N.Virginia region. Site can only be accessed over https , so ssl cert installed on both EC2 instance. Now i want to improve ...
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CloudFront does not handle “Origin Path” and origin redirections well
With Cloudfront we can define an "Origin Path" different from "/". It is useful when having multiple folders on a single S3 bucket for example.
Suppose you have many folders on a S3 bucket, websiteA, ...
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AWS Lambda: Using CORS & Lambda proxy to expose cloudfront signed cookies
I'm building a full javascript app from Salesforce.com API with no server side script that will be hosted on salesforce.com domain (https)
This app should be able to grant access to multiple files ...
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CloudFront Signed URL : Access denied to “subfolders”
I've several objects on my S3 buckets "AwesomeBucket" :
AwesomeBucket/Video/file.mp4
AwesomeBucket/Audio/file.mp3
AwesomeBucket/index.html
AwesomeBucket/hello.html
From a single cloudfront signed ...
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Any way to get CloudFront to accept single-part (top level) CNAME?
We have "go links" where I work, such as http://go.mycompany.com/foo which redirects to an arbitrary location. It's powered by a simple Python app on Google App Engine that keeps a mapping of keyword =...
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How do I limit S3 object access to CloudFront only?
TL;DR - How do I block requests for https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/BUCKET-NAME/FILE.EXT while allowing requests coming via CloudFront?
I followed the AWS documentation "Restricting Access to ...
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Cloudfront GoDaddy DNS - SSL Certificate Issues
I have a CloudFront distribution setup and working correctly. I also have an SSL certificate issued using ACM.
My GoDaddy DNS has a CNAME entry for www which points to the cloudfront distribution
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Amazon S3 - Cloudfront - Images just randomly get permission denied
we have a very strange issue with the images on our websites. From time to time, some images get a permission denied response when our website is requested. These images are in a S3 bucket with ...
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Cloudformation Trouble with Parsing
I am having some issues w/ using CloudFormation and CloudFront. I have been using the AWS resources to form my template, found here
"OpenVPNCloudFront" : {
"Type" : "AWS::CloudFront::...
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Serve a static website on S3 via CloudFront and ACM SSL without Route53
There is a great write-up of what I consider a "standard" setup of a single-page app hosted on AWS: S3 Static Sites. It includes
Deployment to S3
SSL certificate via ACM
Distribution via CloudFront
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AWS CloudFront not caching S3 content
I am trying to learn CloudFront, but it seems my distribution is not caching data correctly.
I have an S3 bucket in Tokyo (I am in North America). I am trying to access the following file with the ...
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Should I use CloudFront in front of API/Web just because I want them on a single domain?
I typically develop my applications with frontend single page application on S3 and backend APIs on a server typically elastic beanstalk (so ELB + EC2). I am confused over what is a good choice to put ...
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Https configuration on AWS [closed]
I have an angular application hosted on aws s3, say example.com. The url is hosted on route53. You can access my website in non https here: http://proscorepad.com/
I created two repository that are ...
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The way AWS Lambda@Edge accesses to S3 restricted by Object Access Identity (OAI)
I have a question.
Is the Lambda function (written in node.js) associated with CloudFront accessible to S3 objects restricted by Object Access Identity (OAI)?
If yes, could you tell me how to access?
(...
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cannot get aws cloudfront / route53 to resolve my domain name
I have setup a cloudfront distribution with SSL, pointing to a s3 bucket which is public and setup as a static website. I chose the option to redirect HTTP to HTTPS, as I want to force HTTPS.
I ...
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Cloudfront EC2 Configuration working only for Root URL
I have configured an EC2 instance with Cloudfront to use SSL(from ACM).
It works fine only for the root URL (example.com) but not for other URLs (example.com/page1).
502 Error : The request could ...
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How to configure HSTS redirect prerequisites using CloudFront?
The HSTS Preload List Submission website has very specific prerequisites which disallow combining protocol changes and redirects into one step (classic example - redirecting requests for http://...
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Bypass traffic on AWS WAF based on content-type
Is it possible to bypass WAF on Cloudfront if the request is fore statics files like images?
This is a simple question, but one that has a big impact on operating cost. Because the charge of ...
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CloudFront HTTP/2 slower (high TTFB) than HTTP/1.1
My site was running on HTTP/1.1 with CloudFront at front, Webpagetest reports the load time usually at 2 seconds. Yesterday I enabled HTTP/2 (and SSL) on CloudFront, expecting to see an improvement. ...
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Cloudfront Access Denied, but only on certain files
I've read through several similar issues, but they differ in that
This isn't a website, just CDN for images
I have no subdirectories
I was notified by our marketing dept that some of our photos ...
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CNAMEAlreadyExistsException when trying to add an alternate domain name to a cloudfront distribution
I have a cloudfront distribution (d123.cloudfront.com), which I am trying to add a cname for (static.dev.mysite.com). I have added a CNAME and TXT DNS entry as recommended on this AWS support page ...
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what is the difference between amazon edge location and cloudfront? [closed]
How Amazon edgelocation and cloudfront relate to each other?
I understand Both are used for reducing the latency and keep information (cache info)at the nearest location.
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How should I configure DNS for my GoDaddy domain with CloudFront?
I have a static web application being hosted in an S3 Bucket that I am currently hosting with Amazon CloudFront. It is a travel site, so I would like for users around the world to be able to quickly ...
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Proper way to handle file serving
We have a website where we our daily bandwidth use is roughly 10GB of user generated contents.
The software layer is simply Heroku + some addons for DB and monitoring,
and we are handling the uploads ...
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AWS CloudFront with API Gateway's Base Path Mapping for IPv6 support
We currently have some APIs set up in API Gateway, with a Custom Domain Name defined with a Regional Endpoint and Base Path Mappings that map incoming requests to the appropriate API and deployment ...
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Does basepath mapping create a CloudFront Distribution
Does basepath mapping on an API in API gateway use a 'hidden' cloudfront distribution?
I have an API on API Gateway, with base path mappings on a domain. However, this doesn't go through cloudfront--...
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What is an Amazon Route53 “Alias” DNS record?
AWS Route53 Alias value
Consider a domain registered on AWS Route53. HTTP requests to this domain should be served from a AWS CloudFront CDN distribution. In order to achieve this, an alias A record ...
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Cloudfront error 502
I'm trying to setup Cloudfront for my websites. It's the first time I work with cloudfront so I'm still tying to figure out how it all works. But at this moment I get the next error.
cloudfront error ...
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Response from Cloudfront from S3 Origin keeps changing CORS Headers [duplicate]
here is my problem :
CORS are set as supposed to be on the S3 :
<CORSConfiguration>
<CORSRule>
<AllowedOrigin>*</AllowedOrigin>
<AllowedMethod>GET</...
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Is it possible to avoid costs for invalid requests at AWS S3 or cloudfront during a DDoS attack?
There are many tutorials in the internet, that promote cheap hosting of static websites via AWS S3 + AWS Cloudfront (+ Cloudflare).
Example of these would be:
Host a website using S3, CloudFront and ...
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AWS CloudFront Pricing for Uncachable Content
I am using AWS Cloudfront to cache static content (which is dynamically generated upstream). Some of the content is not worthy to cache publicly as it is very user-specific and it would be sufficient ...
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How long does it take for an AWS Certificate to update in a Cloudfront distribution?
I have an AWS Cloudfront distribution setup to use an ACM certificate.
After updating the certificate, it seems it is not updating yet the certificate the distribution is using.
I am guessing this ...
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Whether Cloudfront Origin can be a Route 53 recordset created for Application Load Balancer DNS?
I have created a A Route53 recordset for AWS application load balancer DNS. My question is whether AWS Cloudfront origin can contain this recordset url or not?
For example:
ALB DNS name: xxxx.us-...
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Synchronization issue between Cloudfront and origin
Can anyone tell me what entries I should give in godaddy DNS for site
example.com?
Issue:
www.example.com is loading from cloudfront origin with ssl however, example.com is loading directly from ...
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Can AWS CloudFront be used without ec2 server
My wordpress websites are hosted on a different registrar's VPS server. My question is can i still use AWS Cloudfront for CDN?
