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 .

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Prerequisites

  • An AWS account that you are able to use for testing.
  • Permissions to Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront.

Costs

Steps:

References & useful resources

Amazon S3 Developer Guide Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide