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0 pointspsychometry11y ago0 comments

What's the benefit to serving your assets from a custom SSL-secured domain over https://whatever.cloudfront.net? The end-user doesn't really care what domain they're served from.

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ceejayoz11y ago

You can sit CloudFront in front of the entire site (not just assets, similar to CloudFlare) and tell it to proxy POST requests to the origin.

blowski11y ago

Use case: If you want to serve an entire site (i.e. the HTML as well as the assets) from CloudFront over https.

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