Category: AWS

Set Default Root Object for Statically Hosted Website on AWS CloudFront (AWS CloudFront Functions)

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A standard AWS CloudFront distribution is set to automatically serve the index.html file of a website when a client requests the root of the site, e.g. https://www.geekmungus.co.uk and does not specify any specific file or file within a sub-directory. However in certain instances your clients may request a page as follows e.g: https://www.geekmungus.co.uk/studies within which an index.html […]

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Static Website Hosting/Publishing using AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, SSL Certificate and Custom FQDN

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Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network operated by Amazon Web Services. Content delivery networks provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers to cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, to improve access speed for downloading the content (citation). Although AWS CloudFront can be used as a CDN (caching […]

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Simple Web Application Firewall (WAF) CloudFormation Template

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A Web Application Firewall (WAF), is a layer of protection you can add to your web application. Adding a WAF to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty straightforward. You need to create at least one WebACL, to which you configure some rules (that filter the traffic), you can then attach the WebACL to the […]

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AWS with Python3 using Boto3 Quickstart (Linux)

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Following on from the https://www.geekmungus.co.uk/aws-cli-quick-start-linux guide, let’s see about how you can connect to your AWS from Python3 using Boto3. If you’ve not already done it, and if you’re not using the “default” credentials, you can specify a particular profile to use by adding it to an environment variable for example the below; where the […]

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