Caching Static Files with Amazon CloudFront

This lab demonstrates how to start distributing your web content with Amazon CloudFront by taking a simple static website in Amazon S3 and integrating it with Amazon CloudFront to deliver your website content from AWS edge locations. The majority of this lab will focus on creating an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the AWS Management Console, and then adapting the existing web pages to use Amazon CloudFront.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create and configure an Amazon CloudFront web distribution
• Update and invalidate your content on Amazon CloudFront
• Test your content from both Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with the AWS Management Console and basic html

Course Outline

• Task 1: Review the static website hosted in your Amazon S3 bucket
• Task 2: Create an Amazon CloudFront web distribution
• Task 3: Test your static website from an Amazon CloudFront distribution
• Task 4: Test your full site hosting
• Task 5: Updating your site cached content
• Task 6: Invalidate your cache

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