AWS - Serving S3 Static Content Via CDN
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service. You can speed up the delivery of static files using HTTP or HTTPS protocols. Each CloudFront distribution has a unique cloudfront.net domain name that can be used to reference objects through the global network of edge locations. AWS CloudFront uses a global network of edge locations for content delivery. You can also monitor and receive notifications on the operational performance of CloudFront distributions using CloudWatch, and track trends in data transfer and requests checking the usage charts. Lets start by creating a S3 bucket and I upload a image. Now, lets create a CDN. Next, I select S3 as my Origin. Origin refers to where my actual content exists. Select the bucket which we created earlier. Next, Enable the option of " Allow private S3 bucket access to CloudFront". This updates the S3 bucket policy to ensure the S3 objects are accessible only from CDN. We are do...