Create a CloudFront distribution with Terraform (AWS)

In this story, we will create a CloudFront distribution of a S3-hosted website.

Defining specifications

The alert will have the following features :

• Domain name: this is the endpoint of the S3 hosting the website;
• ID for the origin : mywonderfulwebsite;
• Listening ports: 80 for HTTP, 443 for HTTPS;
• Origin protocol policy to be applied: http-only;
• TLS protocols used by CloudFront in the case of HTTPS protocol: TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2
• End user requests at the root URL returns: index.html;
• Protocol allowed to access the files in the origin : redirect-to-https;
• compress the content of web requests that include Accept-Encoding: gzip in the header;
• Processed HTTP methods by CloudFront: GET, HEAD;
• Caches the response to requests made with the HTTP methods: GET, HEAD;
• Don’t forward the request strings to the associated origin;
• Don’t forward cookies to the associated origin;
• Don’t restrict the distribution of content by country;
• Ensure that users use HTTPS for requests;
• HTTPS request handled by SNI only.

Creating Terraform resources