I have a python flask application hosted on Elastic Beanstalk (Private Load Balancer).
I wanted to integrate Elastic Beanstalk with Cloudfront so that the Web application can be opened using cloudfront distribution.
How can i achieve this?
ALB must be public. From docs:
Although you can use a signed URL to distribute content from a custom origin, for CloudFront to access the custom origin, the origin must remain publicly accessible.
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I have a node.js app running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I have setup a domain pointing to a CDN distribution which is pointing to the EBS. But the web app is also accessible via the ELB URL directly. I want to block public access to the EBS URL. how can I achieve that?
Create a custom security group that allows only the IP address of the CDN. Create an .ebextensions file that will configure the environment to use your custom security group.
See: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/security-group-elastic-beanstalk/
Your CDN provider should publish their public IP address, for example here is Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/
I have an Elastic Beanstalk instance serving a backend app running natively HTTP and an Angular app hosted on a S3 instance.
Now, I would like to put these on a single domain www.example.com, behind a SSL protected Load Balancer which will route the request internally by the URI, either to the backend (/api/) or angular app (/). For this I setup a Route53 DNS which I wired to the LB.
I don't see an option to route directly from LB to the S3 instance though. I've read that, I should create a CloudFront distribution for the angular app and specify the LB as the origin but after configuring CF distro, I don't see any option inside of the LB to connect it to the angular app. How should I approach it?
Routing should be handled on CloudFront not on load balancer in this case. You can create multiple behaviors in CloudFront, each pointing to a different origin. So you can choose default CloudFront behavior(*) to point to your s3 bucket and create second behavior that is used whenever URL contains /api to point to your load balancer origin.
Which one is better to install Amazon SSL certificate in Cloudfront or in Load balncer
It depends.
As you might already know, Cloudfront is a CDN and will deliver your content closer to end-consumers who access the content (using AWS Edge network). If you don't require that or your content needs to be delivered fast only to regional consumers (where your load balancer is in) then you don't have to use Cloudfront.
In other words, you could have SSL added at either Cloudfront or at the ALB depending on your requirement.
For CloudFront, you need to get a ACM cert in us-east-1 and for load balancers , it should be in the same region as your load balancer.
I have a site hosted on s3, I do use cloudfront to control the http error codes returned. I have a .app domain that I would like to point at that site but I guess I need an SSL certificate for that and I heard Amazon has free ones if you use their load balancer.
So how do I go about setting up their load balancer to work with my S3 hosted site?
Thanks.
I heard Amazon has free ones if you use their load balancer.
While that is true, you don't need -- and can't use -- a load balancer with an S3+CloudFront site. Amazon Certificate Manager works directly with CloudFront, and no balancer is required in this configuration. Certs are still free.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/01/amazon-cloudfront-integrates-with-aws-certificate-manager/
I tried to find alternative of nginx on aws, and found only route 53. Is it the same service or no?
Does aws has alternative nginx?
NGINX is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache (Wikipedia). It is software that runs on an operating system (eg Linux, Windows).
There is no equivalent provided by AWS. You can run NGINX on an Amazon EC2 instance.
The closest equivalents on AWS would be:
Using Amazon S3 to serve static web content
Using Elastic Load Balancer to distribute traffic to multiple Amazon EC2 instances
Using Amazon CloudFront to cache content in multiple geographic locations
Amazon Route 53 is a DNS service for resolving domain names, which is not base NGINX functionality (although NGINX can handle virtual hosts, which overlaps a bit with DNS).