Preventing Amazon Cloudfront hotlinking

Question

I use Amazon Cloudfront to host all my site\'s images and videos, to serve them faster to my users which are pretty scattered across the globe. I also apply pretty aggressi

Answer 1

You can forward the Referer header to your origin

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 handle the Referer header on your origin as well.