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Bucket Explorer :: Cloudfront :: Bucket Explorer : How it works?

1. How to use Amazon CloudFront services to improve hosting media files?
2. How to create private distribution?
3. How to update distribution?
4. How to create streaming distribution?
5. What do you mean by distribution with custom origin and how can it be used in Bucket Explorer?
6. How can I create Amazon CloudFront Distribution using HTTPS protocol ?
7. Why I am unable to create distribution on my bucket?
8. How to stream a video from Amazon S3?
9. How does Amazon CloudFront works?
10. How can I manage distribution on Amazon S3 bucket?
11. How to create distribution on Amazon S3 bucket?
12. I don't want to use a particular distribution on my bucket, what should I do now?
13. How can I set invalidation for streaming distribution(Public/Private) using Bucket Explorer?
14. How to create private streaming distribution?

How does Amazon CloudFront works?

Amazon CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations.
  1. Place the object in a bucket and make it publicly readable.
  2. Create a distribution and get the domain name (auto generated by Amazon CloudFront).
  3. Create object links using the domain name.
  4. An end user requests the object and Amazon CloudFront chooses the appropriate edge location.
  5. Amazon CloudFront goes to the origin server for the object if necessary.
  6. The edge location serves the object.
  7. Later, the object expires (TTL).