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Preventing Amazon Cloudfront hotlinking

  1. Go to CloudFront settings
  2. Edit Distributions settings for a distribution
  3. Go to the Behaviors tab and edit or create a behavior
  4. Set Forward Headers to Whitelist
  5. Add Referer as a whitelisted header
  6. Save the settings in the bottom right corner

Make sure to also handle the Referer header on your origin.

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Tags: aws, cdn, cloudfront, hotlinking

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