Using Amazon S3 as a Site Origin

The StackPath CDN is compatible with Amazon S3 Buckets as origin Pulls. This may require you to set the Bucket access permissions through Bucket Policy or Access Control List to allow the CDN to obtain access. This article will walk you through the setup process.

Setting up Bucket Access

For this example, the bucket was set up to allow public read-only access, so that anyone can view the contents of the bucket. This will require no preconfigured Public Access settings for your account:

Select Access Control List from the Permissions tab for the bucket
Select Everyone and enable List Objects to grant public access to only view objects

You can read more about Amazon AWS permissions and policies here, to configure the bucket access differently, to allow only select access by using examples found here, and our IP list found here.

Setting Up the CDN

This example uses a bucket named stackpathtesting within the us-east-2 region, please replace any instance of stackpathtesting or <bucketname> with the actual name of your bucket and any instance of us-east-2 or <aws-region> with the actual region for your bucket.

Log in to StackPath
Create a new Site
Enter the Domain Name for the site being created.
Set the Bucket URL to <bucketname>s3.<aws-region>.amazonaws.com. Set Origin Authentication if the bucket has been configured with such, or leave None if no authentication is required.
View the newly created Site and select the Settings tab to confirm the Host Header.
Now, confirm the Host Header is set as <bucketname>.s3.<awsregion>.amazonaws.com.
Test the Edge Address by visiting it with the browser. This should produce an XML File that contains an index of all of the objects within the bucket. Once this is confirmed, you can now serve your bucket objects over the CDN Cache using
http://cdn.url/path/to/bucket/object (And replacing cdn.url with the Edge Address was generated upon creating the Site).