Working with distributions

You create a CloudFront distribution to tell CloudFront where you want content to be delivered from, and the details about how to track and manage content delivery. The following topics explain some basics about CloudFront distributions and provide detailed information about the settings you can choose to configure your distributions to meet your business needs.

Topics

• Overview of distributions
• Creating, updating, and deleting distributions
• Using CloudFront continuous deployment to safely test CDN configuration changes
• Using various origins with CloudFront distributions
• Using custom URLs by adding alternate domain names (CNAMEs)
• Using WebSockets with CloudFront distributions