Edge locations and CloudFront overview in AWS - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Edge locations and CloudFront overview

📖 Scenario: You are setting up a simple AWS CloudFront distribution to deliver content faster to users worldwide by using edge locations.This project will guide you through creating the basic CloudFront distribution configuration step-by-step.

🎯 Goal: Build a CloudFront distribution configuration that uses a specified origin domain and enables caching at edge locations.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary called origin_config with the origin domain name.

Add a configuration variable called default_cache_behavior with viewer protocol policy.

Create a dictionary called cloudfront_distribution combining origin and cache behavior.

Add the final DistributionConfig key with enabled status to complete the CloudFront distribution configuration.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

CloudFront is used to speed up delivery of websites and content by caching it at edge locations close to users worldwide.

💼 Career

Understanding CloudFront configuration is essential for cloud engineers and architects working with AWS to optimize application performance and security.

1

Create the origin configuration

Create a dictionary called origin_config with the key DomainName set to example-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com.

AWS

# Create the origin_config dictionary with DomainName
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a dictionary with the exact key 'DomainName' and value 'example-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com'.

2

Add default cache behavior configuration

Add a dictionary called default_cache_behavior with the key ViewerProtocolPolicy set to redirect-to-https.

AWS

origin_config = {
    'DomainName': 'example-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com'
}
# Add default_cache_behavior dictionary with ViewerProtocolPolicy
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Create a dictionary named default_cache_behavior with the exact key and value.

3

Combine origin and cache behavior into distribution dictionary

Create a dictionary called cloudfront_distribution with keys Origins set to a list containing origin_config, and DefaultCacheBehavior set to default_cache_behavior.

AWS

origin_config = {
    'DomainName': 'example-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com'
}

default_cache_behavior = {
    'ViewerProtocolPolicy': 'redirect-to-https'
}
# Create cloudfront_distribution dictionary combining Origins and DefaultCacheBehavior
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a dictionary with keys 'Origins' and 'DefaultCacheBehavior' referencing the previous dictionaries.

4

Add DistributionConfig enabled status

Add a key DistributionConfig to cloudfront_distribution with a nested dictionary containing Enabled set to True, and include the existing Origins and DefaultCacheBehavior inside it.

AWS

origin_config = {
    'DomainName': 'example-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com'
}

default_cache_behavior = {
    'ViewerProtocolPolicy': 'redirect-to-https'
}

cloudfront_distribution = {
    'Origins': [origin_config],
    'DefaultCacheBehavior': default_cache_behavior
}
# Add DistributionConfig key with Enabled set to true including Origins and DefaultCacheBehavior
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Wrap the existing keys inside a new DistributionConfig dictionary and set Enabled to True.