How to restrict s3 bucket access to cloudfront 3 min aws

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okay, let's walk through the process of restricting access to an s3 bucket so that only your cloudfront distribution can access it. this setup ensures that users can only retrieve content from your s3 bucket through cloudfront, leveraging its caching and security features. this is a fundamental security best practice. we'll do this in about three sections, covering setup, code, and testing.

**i. understanding the architecture and the goal**

before we dive in, let's clarify the architecture we're aiming for and why it's important.

* **s3 bucket:** this is where your static content (images, html, css, javascript files, etc.) is stored.

* **cloudfront distribution:** this acts as a content delivery network (cdn). it caches your content at edge locations around the world, providing faster access for your users and offloading traffic from your s3 bucket.

* **origin access identity (oai):** this is a special cloudfront user that you create. it's used to grant cloudfront permission to access your s3 bucket. crucially, this identity *cannot* be used by anyone else to directly access the s3 bucket.

* **bucket policy:** this is an access control policy attached to your s3 bucket. it defines who (and under what conditions) can access the bucket.

**goal:** we want to configure the s3 bucket policy to *only* allow access from our cloudfront distribution (via the oai). direct access to the s3 bucket from the internet (or other aws accounts) will be denied.

**ii. detailed steps and code example (aws cli/cloudformation)**

we'll break down the process into steps, providing examples using the aws cli and demonstrating how this can be achieved programmatically through cloudformation.

**step 1: create an s3 bucket (if you don't have one)**

* **aws cli:**



* replace `your-unique-bucket-name` with a globally unique name for your bucket.
* replace `your-aws-region` with the aws region where you want to create the bucket (e.g., `us-east-1`).

* ...

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