How to configure a CloudFront distribution on the Amazon S3 bucket
To deliver your content in an Amazon S3 bucket through CloudFront edge locations, it is necessary to configure your bucket as an origin store by defining a CloudFront web distribution, specifying the S3 bucket as an origin server, and storing your content on the S3 bucket. After creating a CloudFront web distribution, the distribution will be available within the next 15 minutes. Then, they can receive the content through the closest edge location, not directly from the configured S3 bucket as an origin server. This is how CloudFront speeds up distribution of your content and minimizes network latency through the edge locations.
Getting ready
You do not have to request or fill-in any forms or pay any initial cost to use Amazon CloudFront CDN. All you need to do is to:
- Sign up for the AWS management console and access the Amazon CloudFront CDN using your IAM credentials
- Prepare your Amazon S3 bucket as an origin server to store...