Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services.
Questions tagged [amazon-cloudfront]
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Amazon Cloudfront with S3. Access Denied
We're trying to distribute out S3 buckets via Cloudfront but for some reason the only response is an AccessDenied XML document like the following:
Access Denied
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AccessDenied
Jordan Adams
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Chrome S3 Cloudfront: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header on initial XHR request
I have a webpage (https://smartystreets.com/contact) that uses jQuery to load some SVG files from S3 through the CloudFront CDN.
In Chrome I will open an Incognito window as well as the console. Then I will load the page. As the page loads, I will…
SunSparc
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No Cache-Control Header for files from AWS CloudFront with S3 Origin
We just migrated to Amazon AWS. We currently have an EC2 instance that's working well. It's running Nginx in front and Apache in the back-end. That's running well also. All sites are launched properly and includes the Cache-Control header for files…
jarvis
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Setting Access-Control-Allow-Origin on Cloudfront
I am having problems serving static assets to Firefox using AWS Cloudfront.
Chrome works perfect, but Firefox is returning a CORS error.
If I execute curl , I get:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-font-opentype
Content-Length:…
Tony
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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 redirect them to the new website pages.
For example: I…
Yannick Chaze
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Blue/Green deployments with CloudFront
I'm looking for a way to do Blue/Green deployments with CloudFront.
Does anyone have a good solution for moving from one CloudFront distribution to another or does everyone really just create their distribution and then never ever touch it again?…
Peter M
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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 is defined:
dig results
However, dig results…
Adam Matan
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HSTS on Amazon CloudFront from S3 origin
Is it possible to set HSTS headers on an Amazon CloudFront distribution from a S3 origin?
chrisvdb
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How can I use https with AWS Cloudfront without paying $600 to upload my cert?
I can host a dynamic website through Amazon CloudFront because they have CNAME Wildcard Support. However, some pages of my Site use HTTPS. Amazon have some documentation about how to associate your SSL certificate with a CloudFront distribution but…
Tom
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Any drawbacks to AWS certificate manager wildcard certificates?
Let's say I'm using AWS Certificate Manager to get a certificate for example.com for use with AWS CloudFront. I can specify an alternate domain of www.example.com and point it to another CloudFront distribution in my DNS.
But AWS Certificate Manager…
Garret Wilson
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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 headers to determine how
frequently it needs to check the…
isNaN1247
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Serving website from Cloudfront and S3 without public bucket
When serving a website via CloudFront from an S3 bucket, I would typically apply the following Bucket Policy to allow access to my files:
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Allow Public Access to All…
Steve
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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 possible, but it isn't documented (that I can…
Garreth McDaid
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Amazon Cloudfront with S3 Redirect
I'm trying to do something that should be relatively straight-forward - I want to setup a few domains and subdomains to redirect to the core domain for our site, but I want to put the redirects out on Cloudfront. Everything works except redirecting…
Chris Moschini
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OPTIONS request to CloudFront distribution with managed CORS-With-Preflight policy returns 403
I have a CloudFront distribution with a default behavior that is configured to allow any CORS request including preflight requests. However, the OPTIONS request will fail with an HTTP 403 error (details below) which is not what I expect.
I am using…
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