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CloudFront Flashcards

1
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Features:
- Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Improves read performance, content is cached at the edge
- Improves users experience
- 216 Point of Presence globally (edge locations)
- DDoS protection (because worldwide), integration with Shield, AWS Web Application Firewall

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Amazon CloudFront

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What is an origin?

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Location where content is stored, and from which CloudFront gets content to serve to viewers.

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Four features of S3 bucket origin?

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  • For distributing files and caching them at the edge
  • Enhanced security with CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC)
  • OAC is replacing Origin Access Identity(OAI)
  • CloudFront can be used as an ingress (to upload files to S3)
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Four custom origins, that are HTTP servers.

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  • Application Load Balancer
  • EC2 instance
  • S3 website (must first enable the bucket as a static S3 website)
  • Any HTTP backend you want
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Features:
- Global Edge network
- Files are cached for a TTL (maybe a day)
- Great for static content that must be available everywhere

A

CloundFront

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Features:
- Cross Region Replication: Must be setup for each region you want replication to happen
- Files are updated in near real-time
- Read only
- Great for dynamic content that needs to be available at low-latency in few regions

A

S3 Region Replication

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CloudFront is a ……,which is to cache content …..,

whereas S3 Cross-Region Replication is to….. an entire bucket into another…….

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CDN, all around the world, replicate, region

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Where is the cache located?

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At each CloudFront Edge Location

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How does CloudFront identify each object in the cache?

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Cache Key

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You want to maximize the Cache Hit ratio to minimize requests to the origin?

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True

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How can you invalidate part of the cache?

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Use the CreateInvalidation API

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You want to cache as much stuff as possible in your edge locations?

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True

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What is CloudFront Cache Key?

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A unique identifier for every object in the cache

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14
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CloudFront Cache Key can have additional elements then the default ones?

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True

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How can you add other elements(HTTP headers, cookies, query strings) to the Cache Key?

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CloudFront Cache Policies

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Are all HTTP headers, cookies, and query strings that you include in the Cache Key automatically included in origin requests?

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True

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What happens when Cache policy HTTP header is None?

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  • Don’t include any headers in the Cache Key (except default)
  • Headers are not forwarded (except default)
  • Best caching performance
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What happens when Cache policy HTTP header is Whitelisted?

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  • only specified headers included in the Cache Key
  • Specified headers are also forwarded to Origin
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Cache Policy Query Strings is None?

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  • Don’t include any query strings in the Cache Key
  • Query strings are not forwarded
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Cache Policy Query Strings is Whitelist?

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  • Only specified query strings included in the Cache Key
  • Only specified query strings are forwarded
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Cache Policy Query Strings is Include All-Except?

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  • Include all query strings in the Cache Key except the specified list
  • All query strings are forwarded except the specified list
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Cache Policy Query Strings are All?

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  • Include all query strings in the Cache Key
  • All query strings are forwarded
  • Worst caching performance
23
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Cache Policies based on HTTP Headers?

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-None
-WhiteList

24
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Cache Policies based on Query Strings?

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  • None
    – Whitelist
    – Include All-Except
    – All
25
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What allows specifying values that you want to include in origin requests without including them in the Cache Key (no duplicated cached content)

A

Origin Request Policy?

26
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Origin request policy grants ability to add CloudFront …… and …… to an origin request that were not included in the viewer request.

A

HTTP headers, Custom Headers

27
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Purpose of CloudFront Cache Policy?

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Controls how CloudFront caches your content at edge locations.

28
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Purpose of CloudFront Origin Request Policy?

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Controls what information CloudFront includes in requests to your origin.

29
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Origin Request Policies can be include in…?

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  1. HTTP Headers
  2. Cookies
  3. Query Strings
30
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CloudFront won’t know about a back-end origin update until the TTL has expired?

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True.

31
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How can you bypass the TTL and force and entire or partial cache refresh?

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Perform a CloudFront Invalidation

32
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When will CoundFront know that the back-end origin has been updated?

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After the TTL has expired causing a refresh.

33
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With Cache Behaviors you can…… different settings for a given …… pattern

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Configure,URL path

34
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With Cache Behaviors you can …….to different kind of origins/origin groups based on the …….or ……..pattern

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route, content type, path

35
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When adding additional Cache Behaviors, the ………. is always the……. to be processed and is always /*

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Default Cache Behavior, last

36
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EC2 instances must be……., otherwise the edge locations ………… our EC2 instances because there’s no ……..connectivity in CloudFront.

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public, will not be able to access, private VPC

37
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What is Geo Restriction?

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Restrict who can access your distribution based on location.

38
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Use case:
You want to distribute paid shared content to premium users over the world.

A

Use CloudFront Signed URL / Cookie

39
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Features:
- Includes URL expiration
- Includes IP ranges to access the data from
- Trusted signers (which AWS accounts can create signed URLs)

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Can be included to policy attached to CloudFront Signed URL / Cookie?

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What is a Signed URL for?

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Grants access to individual files (one signed URL per file)

41
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What is a Signed Cookie for?

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access to multiple files (one signed cookie for many files)

42
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Features:
- Allow access to a path, no matter
- Account wide key-pair, only the root can manage it
- Can filter by IP, path, date, expiration
- Can leverage caching features

A

CloudFront Signed URL

43
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Features:
- Issue a request as the person who pre-signed the URL
- Uses the IAM key of the signing IAM principal
- Limited lifetime

A

S3 Pre-Signed URL

44
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What are Origin Groups for?

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To increase high-availability and do failover

45
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How do Origin Groups work?

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There is one primary and one secondary origin

If the primary origin fails, the second one is used

46
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What is Field Level Encryption?

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Protects user sensitive information through application stack

47
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What does Field Level Encryption work?

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Adds an additional layer of security along with HTTPS

encrypted at the edge close to user

48
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How can you get real-time requests received by CloudFront sent to Kinesis Data Streams

A

Real Time Logs

49
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What allows you to Monitor, analyze, and take actions based on content delivery performance

A

Real Time Logs

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