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Get started with CloudFront

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Get started with CloudFront - Amazon CloudFront

The topics in this section show you how to get started delivering your content with Amazon CloudFront.

The Set up your AWS account topic describes prerequisites for the following tutorials, such as creating an AWS account and creating a user with administrative access.

The basic distribution tutorial shows you how to set up origin access control (OAC) to send authenticated requests to an Amazon S3 origin.

The secure static website tutorial shows you how to create a secure static website for your domain name using OAC with an Amazon S3 origin. The tutorial uses an Amazon CloudFront (CloudFront) template for configuration and deployment.

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