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Cloudfront Distribution


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Amazon CloudFront accelerates the distribution of static and dynamic web content such as .html, .css, .php, images, and media files. When a user requests content, CloudFront serves it through a network of edge locations around the world, providing low latency and high performance.

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Resource Setting Values​

  • enabled : Whether the distribution is enabled to accept end user requests for content - true, false

  • origin : A unique identifier for the origin

  • cache_policy : Cache Policy name

    • min_ttl : Minimum amount of time (in seconds) that an object should remain in the CloudFront cache
    • max_ttl : Maximum amount of time (in seconds) that an object should remain in the CloudFront cache
    • default_ttl : Default amount of time (in seconds) that an object should remain in the CloudFront cache
    • cookie_behavior : Determines whether cookies from end-user requests are included in the cache key and automatically included in requests CloudFront sends to the origin - whitelist, all, none, allExcept
    • cookies_items : List of cookies to be passed to the origin server
    • header_behavior : Whether to cache objects based on the values of specified headers - whitelist, none
    • headers_items : List of headers to specify when caching an object
    • query_string_behavior : Whether to cache different versions of content based on query string parameter values - whitelist, all, none, allExcept
    • query_strings_items : List of query string parameters

  • cache_behavior

    • path_pattern : Pattern that specifies which requests you want this cache behavior to apply to
    • compress : Whether you want CloudFront to automatically compress content for web requests - true, false
    • viewer_protocol_policy : Use this element to specify the protocol that users can use to access the files in the origin specified by TargetOriginId when a request matches the path pattern in PathPattern - allow-all, https-only, redirect-to-https
    • allowed_methods : Controls which HTTP methods CloudFront processes and forwards to your Amazon S3 bucket or your custom origin - GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, PUT, DELETE
    • cached_methods : Controls whether CloudFront caches the response to requests using the specified HTTP methods - GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, PUT, DELETE
    • origin_name : The origin name that you want CloudFront to route requests to when a request matches the path pattern
    • linked_cache_policy_name : The ID of the Cache Policy that is attached to the behavior

  • restriction

    • type : The method that you want to use to restrict distribution of your content by country - whitelist, blacklist, none
    • locations : The ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 codes for which you want CloudFront either to distribute your content or not distribute your content

  • viewer_certificate

    • default_certificate_enabled : If you want viewers to use HTTPS to request your objects and you're using the CloudFront domain name for your distribution - true, false

  • price_class : The price class for Cloudfront distribution - PriceClass_100, PriceClass_200, PriceClass_All

  • http_version : The maximum HTTP version to support on the distribution - http1.1, http2

  • is_ipv6_enabled : Whether the IPv6 is enabled for the distribution - true, false

  • logging

    • logging_enabled : Enable logging - true, false

  • linked_waf_web_acl_name : The name of WAF WEB ACL to use when enabling security protections

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