AWS Cloudfront

AWS Cloudfront

  1. The create distribution button will respond with the ID of the CloudFront distribution and the CloudFront endpoint in the format 123abcxy2.cloudfront.net which has created to host your site

    prefs createbucket

  2. The CloudFront distribution will now be linked to your S3 bucket however this will still be using the CloudFront endpoint as the URL. To use a custom domain enter the domain prefix for the distribution ie www for your live site.
  3. To update your DNS create a CNAME record for example in Amazon route53 create record pointing to the CloudFront domain in file preferences.

    prefs listbucket

    www.youdocms.com CNAME yourcloudfrontdomain.cloudfront.net

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