CloudFront CDN

Add a CloudFront CDN resource to your Altostra project

The CloudFront CDN resource creates a CloudFront distribution.
To add an CloudFront CDN resource in the designer, go to the "Networking & Content Delivery" section and select the "CloudFront CDN" resource, or search "cdn" in the search box:

CloudFront CDN properties

Name:

type: string | required

• Altostra will use Name property for generating a logical ID:
  • Only strict alpha-numeric characters will be used (by the restrictions of CFN)
  • If non alpha-numeric characters were used in the name, the logical ID will be generated by the resource type
  • Up to 64 characters

Default Route:

type: string

• Name of the default html file used for handling requests to the root URL.

Single Page App (SPA):

type: boolean

• Configures CloudFront distribution to handle Errors (i.e., a 404 Not Found response) by showing default route (i.e., a index.html) instead of CloudFront Error page

Use TLS:

type: boolean

• Configures CloudFront to serve content only via HTTPS

HTTP Redirection:

type: boolean | conditional

• Available only if Use TLS is enabled
• Configures CloudFront to redirect HTTP trafic to HTTPS

CloudFront CDN connections

The CloudFront CDN can connect to the following resources:

• Storage
  • S3 Bucket
    • Stores your web application