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How CloudFront Delivers Content
The following figure and table describe the basic process CloudFront uses to
deliver your content. In this example, the content is a file called image.jpg, and the content origin is an Amazon S3 bucket.
![[Important]](http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/docs-common/images/important.png) | Important |
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The following process assumes that you make the objects in your bucket publicly readable (which means anyone who knows the bucket's name and object's name could access the object). If you'd prefer to keep the objects private and control who accesses them, see Using a Signed URL to Serve Private Content. |
Process for Delivering Content
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You place the original version of |
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You create a distribution and get your distribution's domain name. |
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3 |
You create links to |
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When an end user requests a page that contains |
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If the St. Louis edge location doesn't have a copy of |
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The St. Louis edge location then serves |
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Later, CloudFront doesn't put a new copy of |
CloudFront repeats tasks 4–7 as needed to satisfy end-user demand for
image.jpg.
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