CloudFront with S3 Bucket Origin
Last Updated: September 2020
Author: Ben Potter, Security Lead, Well-Architected
Introduction
This hands-on lab will guide you through the steps to host static web content in an Amazon S3 bucket, protected and accelerated by Amazon CloudFront. Skills learned will help you secure your workloads in alignment with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Prerequisites
- An AWS account that you are able to use for testing.
- Permissions to Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront.
Costs
- Typically less than $1 per month (depending on the number of requests) if the account is only used for personal testing or training, and the tear down is not performed.
- Amazon S3 pricing
- Amazon CloudFront pricing
- AWS Pricing