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Creating a CloudFront Distribution with Regional S3 Origins

In this lab, we will be setting up a S3 bucket to serve as an origin for our CloudFront distribution by creating a S3 bucket, making it public, and creating a CloudFront distribution to help keep your site safer.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 0m
Published
Clock icon May 25, 2023

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create an S3 Bucket with Content

    Create an S3 bucket that will hold your content and upload a JPEG file.

  2. Challenge

    Add a Bucket Policy and Add a Tag on JPEG

    Make the bucket public with a bucket policy and add a public tag to your JPEG file.

  3. Challenge

    Create a CloudFront Distribution

    Create a CloudFront distribution and set your JPEG image as the default root object.

  4. Challenge

    Navigate to the Distribution

    Once your distribution has been deployed, navigate to your lovely JPEG image.

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