How to prevent access to path in Aws CloudFront

Question

I have a website with CloudFront on top. Example uvwxyz.com. How can I prevent access to any request path that looks like so /no-please? uvwxyz.com/mypage/no-please or uvwxyz.com/no-please. How can I achieve this by using CloudFront by setting a template with CloudFormation.

Answer 1

You can restrict the access using Signed URLs or signed cookies.

Serving Private Content with Signed URLs and Signed Cookies

Many companies that distribute content over the internet want to restrict access to documents, business data, media streams, or content that is intended for selected users, for example, users who have paid a fee. To securely serve this private content by using CloudFront, you can do the following:

• Require that your users access your private content by using special CloudFront signed URLs or signed cookies.

• Require that your users access your content by using CloudFront URLs, not URLs that access content directly on the origin server (for example, Amazon S3 or a private HTTP server). Requiring CloudFront URLs isn't necessary, but we recommend it to prevent users from bypassing the restrictions that you specify in signed URLs or signed cookies.