Introduction to Amazon CloudFront
- CloudFront Concepts
- How CloudFront Delivers Content
- Locations of CloudFront Edge Servers
- Paying for CloudFront
- CloudFront or Amazon S3?
Getting Started with CloudFront
Creating Download Distributions
Creating Streaming Distributions
Migrating from Amazon S3 to CloudFront
Working with Distributions
- Changes to the CloudFront API
- Overview of Download and Streaming Distributions
- Actions on Distributions
- Working with Download Distributions
- Working with Streaming Distributions
- Using Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs)
- Choosing the Price Class for a CloudFront Distribution
- Listing, Viewing, and Updating CloudFront Distributions
- Deleting a Distribution
Working with Objects
- Format of URLs for CloudFront Objects
- How CloudFront Processes HTTP and HTTPS Requests
- How CloudFront Forwards, Caches, and Logs Query String Parameters
- How CloudFront Forwards, Caches, and Logs Cookies
- Adding, Removing, or Replacing Objects in a Distribution
- How CloudFront Processes Partial Requests for an Object (Range GETs)
- Specifying a Default Root Object (Download Distributions Only)
- Serving Compressed Files
- Restricting Access to Objects Based on the Geographic Location of End Users (Geoblocking)
Request and Response Behavior, and Supported HTTP Status Codes
- Request and Response Behavior for Amazon S3 Origins
- Request and Response Behavior, and Supported HTTP Status Codes for Custom Origins
Serving Private Content through CloudFront
- Task List: Serving Private Content
- Using an Origin Access Identity to Restrict Access to Your Amazon S3 Content
- Specifying the AWS Accounts That Can Create Signed URLs (Trusted Signers)
- Overview of Signed URLs
- Creating a Signed URL Using a Canned Policy
- Creating a Signed URL Using a Custom Policy
- Using Linux Commands and OpenSSL for Base64-Encoding and Encryption
- Code and Examples for Creating a Signature for a Signed URL
Using an HTTPS Connection to Access Your Objects
Using IAM to Control Access to CloudFront Resources
Access Logs
General Usage Data
Troubleshooting
Load Testing CloudFront
Making API Requests
- Endpoints
- AWS Support for Programming Languages
- REST Requests
- REST Responses
- Authenticating REST Requests
CloudFront Tutorials
- Live HTTP Streaming Using CloudFront and Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5
- Live Smooth Streaming Using Amazon CloudFront and IIS Media Services 4.1
- Restricting Access to Files in a CloudFront Distribution Based on Geographic Location (Geoblocking)
- On-Demand Video Streaming Using CloudFront and Adobe Flash Player
- On-Demand Video Streaming Using CloudFront and Flowplayer for Adobe Flash
- On-Demand Video Streaming Using CloudFront and JW Player
Amazon CloudFront Resources
Where Do I Go from Here?
Document History

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Endpoints

Unlike other Amazon services, CloudFront doesn't have multiple endpoints based on the regions in which the service operates; for example, Singapore, EU/Dublin, US/East, and so on. This is because CloudFront distributions aren't regional resources like Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon EC2 instances. Instead, CloudFront can serve content from one of its many edge locations. This means that CloudFront distributions have a single endpoint: the location of the origin server for a specific distribution.

As a result, when you make a REST request you use the following format, where <distribution> is the distribution that you are asking to take action on in your request.

cloudfront.amazonaws.com/2013-05-12/<distribution>

Related Topics

REST Requests
The Amazon CloudFront Network (a list on the AWS website of all the Amazon CloudFront edge locations)
Regions and Endpoints (information about AWS product endpoints and regions in the Amazon Web Services General Reference)

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