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karthiks
karthiks

Reputation: 7309

Is there a way I restrict AWS CloudFront distribution for a region only to save costs?

I don't want my AWS CloudFront distribution to be spread across the world given that i know my target customer geography. I don't care of the rest of the world beyond this geographic region. This helps me to save unwarranted data transfer costs to the rest of the regions.

FYI, the AWS Doc on Getting Started with a Simple CloudFront Distributiondoesn't show an option for this.

Did I miss anything? Is this possible?

Would really appreciate your inputs. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1077

Answers (1)

Arun Kamalanathan
Arun Kamalanathan

Reputation: 8603

you cannot instruct cloudfront to store content on a particular region. but you can use price classes to limit cloudfront to fetch content from particular location. The locations are not region.

Look at cloudfront pricing, https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

But if you need to prevent users in specific countries from accessing your content, you can use the CloudFront geo restriction feature: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/GettingStarted.SimpleDistribution.html#GettingStartedCreateDistribution

Upvotes: 2

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