Using EC2 as a Cloudfront Origin Server

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Amazon has recently added the ability to use any server as an origin server for Cloudfront, removing the original S3 only restriction.

My question is- how do I set this up? The AWS web-gui seems to only support the S3 buckets (still), and the ec2 command line tools don't appear to have anything for registering a Cloudfront distro.

Any thoughts much appreciated!

Thanks, Chris.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 03 '10 at 21:59

You have to use the API to create a DistributionConfig that uses CustomOrigin (rather than S3Origin). Some documentation on how to do so here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/APIReference/index.html?DistributionConfigDatatype.html#CustomOriginChildElements

Then you have to create a Distribution using that DistributionConfig: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/APIReference/index.html?CreateDistribution.html

More information on Distributions can be found here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?WorkingWithDistributions.html

I believe once you've created the Distribution, you can manage it from within the AWS Console, but you can't yet create them there.

Including this, which is pretty straightforward to use until the GUI tools catch up http://eternusuk.blogspot.com/2011/01/creating-custom-origin-server-for.html — jabley, Jan 07 '11 at 11:36

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '11 at 22:22

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Now-a-days you can setup Custom Origin via the AWS Web console.

answered Aug 12 '11 at 22:22

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 17 '15 at 10:32

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Add a loadbalancer your EC2, you can than select the load balancer as origin in Cloudfront.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/CustomOriginBestPractices.html

answered Jan 17 '15 at 10:32

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