Distributions can be configured with a fairly wide array of options. Our recipe is going to be quite simple so that you can get up and running as quickly as possible. But we will talk through some of the more common configuration options:
- Origins: A distribution needs to have at least one origin. An origin, as the name indicates, is where your website content originates from your public-facing website. The properties you'll most likely be concerned with are:
- Origin Domain Name: This is the hostname of your public-facing website. The CloudFormation template we supply accepts this hostname as a parameter.
- Origin Path: It's possible to configure the distribution to fetch content from a directory or subfolder ...
