Amazon CloudFront
Developer Guide (API Version 2010-11-01)
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Document History

This documentation is associated with the 2010-11-01 release of Amazon CloudFront. This guide was last updated on 10 February 2012.

The following table describes the important changes since the last release of the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

ChangeDescriptionRelease Date

New Feature

This release of Amazon CloudFront introduces AWS Management Console support for creating a distribution with a custom origin, restricting your distribution to HTTPS exclusively, and specifying a default root object. For more information, go to the Amazon CloudFront product page or see any of the following topics in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide: Creating a Distribution with a Custom Origin, Creating Secure HTTPS Connections, and Creating a Default Root Object.

In This Release

New Feature

This release of Amazon CloudFront includes integration with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). For more information, go to the Amazon CloudFront product page or Controlling User Access to Your AWS Account in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

March 10, 2011

New Feature

This release of Amazon CloudFront includes new APIs to support custom origins. For more information, go to the Amazon CloudFront product page or Creating a Distribution with a Custom Origin in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

09 November 2010

New Feature

This release of Amazon CloudFront includes new APIs for object invalidation. For more information, go to the Amazon CloudFront product page or Object Invalidation in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide.

31 August 2010

New Feature

Amazon CloudFront now supports the ability to assign a default root object to your distribution. For more information, see Creating a Default Root Object.

05 August 2010

New Feature

Access logging for HTTP distributions now includes a field for query string parameters. For more information, see Download Distribution File Format.

14 July 2010

New Feature

Added support for secure connections using HTTPS. For more information, see Creating Secure HTTPS Connections.

07 June 2010

New Feature

Added logging for streaming content. For more information, see Streaming Distribution Log File Format.

13 May 2010

New Feature

Reduced the minimum amount of time an object can be on an edge server from 24 hours to 1 hour. The default, however, remains 24 hours. For more information, see Expiration.

13 April 2010

New Feature

Added feature to serve private streaming content over a Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) and prevent the content from being downloaded. For more information, see Overall Process to Serve Private Content.

28 March 2010

New Feature

Added feature to deliver streaming content over a Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) connection. For more information, see Streaming Media on Demand.

15 December 2009

New Feature

Added feature to restrict access to your content delivered over HTTP. For more information, see Using a Signed URL to Serve Private Content.

11 November 2009

New Guide

We've separated the API reference material into its own guide. The Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide contains general information about how to use CloudFront, and the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide contains detailed information about the control API requests, responses, and errors.

11 November 2009