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