Lab Details

1. This lab walks you through the steps to create and configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution with origins from an EC2 instance and an S3 bucket. 

2. Duration: 90 minutes

3. AWS Region: US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1.

Introduction

What is CloudFront?

• Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by AWS.

• It provides a globally-distributed network of proxy servers that cache content closer to end-users.

• CDN improves access speed by reducing latency and minimizing the number of internet hops required to retrieve content.

• CloudFront works on a pay-as-you-go basis, allowing users to scale their content delivery as needed.

• It integrates with various origin servers, such as Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2, where the content is stored.

• When a request is made for content, CloudFront delivers it from the nearest edge server, reducing latency and improving performance.

• It supports both "Progressive" and "Streaming" delivery of content, allowing for optimized video streaming and dynamic content acceleration.

• CloudFront can be used to distribute web content, videos, software downloads, and other bulky media.
  
  

Architecture Diagram

Task Details

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

2. Create S3 Bucket

3. Upload a file to an S3 bucket

4. Make the objects publicly accessible

5. Creating CloudFront Distribution

6. Launching an EC2 Instance

7. Add EC2 as the Origin and create Origin Group

8. Test the Origin group

9. Validation of the lab.

10. Deleting AWS Resources.

Launching Lab Environment

1. To launch the lab environment, Click on the Start Lab button.

2. Please wait until the cloud environment is provisioned. It will take less than a minute to provision.

3. Once the Lab is started, you will be provided with IAM user name, Password, Access Key, and Secret Access Key.