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Amazon CloudFront

Let's move on to Amazon CloudFront now. This is our content distribution network and edge caching layer. We use this to publish the web app to the internet, and additionally to provide a higher level of routing flexibility. What we need here is a web distribution that routes to our S3 bucket. This is where we might add a route to a traditional hosting pattern if we needed one of those. It would look something like the following, with the /alternative path routing to an origin that is backed by a load balancer.

The following is a screenshot from the CloudFront console showing two routes, one that is the default route going to our S3 bucket, and the other is routing to an application load balancer. The second is only needed ...