Configure CloudFront — EC2 or Load Balancer

We will create a CloudFront distribution using the AWS Console and link it to a WAF ACL.

Start by having an EC2 instance or ELB running for this project

Open the Amazon CloudFront console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/home?# and create a distribution.

In the Web section, click Get Started.

Specify settings for the distribution: Origin Domain Name - Enter DNS or domain name from your Elastic Load Balancer or EC2 instance

Click Create Distribution at the bottom of the page

For more information on the other configuration options, see Values That You Specify When You Create or Update a Web Distribution in the CloudFront documentation

CloudFront will create your distribution. This might take a while, it is finished when the status of the distribution changes from In Progress to Deployed.

Once your distribution is deployed, copy the domain name into a web browser to test that you can access your content using the CloudFront URL or CNAME.