Content Delivery

Question 1

Why doesn’t “Require HTTPS for communication between CloudFront and your origin” work to deliver restricted content?

A digital media streaming company wants to use AWS Cloudfront to distribute its content only to its service subscribers. As a solutions architect, which of the following solutions would you suggest to deliver restricted content to the bona fide end users?

Answer 1

Because “Require HTTPS for communication between CloudFront and your origin” only serves to ENABLE access, not restrict access.

For restricting access, you need a Cloud Front signed url or signed cookies.