Purpose Restrict access to data distributed via Internet, it is important to restrict access to documents, business data, media streams, or content intended for the legitimate users. You can use CloudFront private distributions to restrict access to data in Amazon S3 buckets. How to Restrict access to these private content ? By using signed URL one can restrict access to these private contents. Signing a URL is the process of creating an RSA digital signature using an RSA key and a policy statement. AWS provides a public-key and private-key(called as key-pair) to its users. AWS keeps the public key, and

What is CloudFront ? CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, for example, .html, .css, .php, and image files, to end users. CloudFront actually is a CDN [more on CDN][1] How it works ? CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations. When an end user requests content that you're serving with CloudFront, the user is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. If the content is already in that edge location, CloudFront delivers it immediately. If