Aliases

No

N/A

For CNAMEs for static website, not applicable.

CacheBehaviors

No

N/A

Covered by default cache behavior

CNAMEs

No

N/A

Not applicable.

Comment

No

“CloudFront distribution for ${stack}data.sagebase.org”

Gives info about distribution.

ContinuousDeploymentPolicyId

No

N/A

Continuous deployment is for distributing traffic for a custom domain name to two different CF distributions. Not applicable.

CustomErrorResponses

No

N/A

For replacing status code in 4xx and 5xx range with custom error messages. No use case for this.

CustomOrigin

No

N/A

Legacy. Covered under Origin.

DefaultCacheBehavior

Yes

DefaultCacheBehavior Object

Required - describes default caches behavior.

DefaultRootObject

No

N/A

Returns a default object when the user sends a request using the root URL and doesn’t include the object. Not applicable to our case since we are signing the URLs and users will always specify an object.

Enabled

Yes

True

Enables the distribution

HttpVersion

No

http2and3

Defaults to HTTP 1.1 , but due to security concerns with HTTP 1.1, will require either HTTP 2 or 3.

IPV6Enabled

No

False

Since we won’t create signed URLs that use IPV6, this is not applicable.

Logging

No

Logging Object

Will allow tracking for data requests.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/AccessLogs.html

OriginGroups

No

N/A

Only used when multiple origins are used. Not applicable.

Origins

No

[Origin Object]

Specifies where data will be pulled from.

PriceClass

No

“PriceClass_100”

Serves objects from the CloudFront edge location that has the lowest latency among the edge locations in the price class. Cost to transfer data out to internet from CloudFront compared to from S3 is only less for North America/Europe, which are the only two regions in Price Class 100. “If you select a price class that does not include all locations, some of your viewers, especially those in geographic locations that are not in your price class, may experience higher latency than if your content were being served from all Amazon CloudFront locations.“

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/PriceClass.html

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Restrictions

No

N/A

Restrictions only relate to countries where content is distributed. Not applicable

S3Origin

No

N/A

Legacy. Not applicable.

Staging

No

N/A

Indicates if this is a staging distribution. Not applicable.

ViewerCertificate

No

ViewerCertificate ObjectN/A

Not required. Minimum TLS requirement set in HttpVersion.

WebACLId

No

N/A

Current signed URLs through S3 do not use a Web ACL.