https vs signed url with Cloudfront

Question

I know this is an apples and oranges question but I\'d like to understand the pros and cons of using https and signed urls with AWS Cloudfront. Might people please comment o

Answer 1

HTTPS helps secure data in transit, which is helpful if you are already using SSL for access to your application. With the CNAME issue, most people are likely not going to realize that your images and other static content are being delivered from cloudfront.net instead of yourdomain.com

Signing URLs only helps control who can access a given file and how long they can access it for. You may use this for delivery digital purchases, or other private files to logged in users. You also loose some of the caching benefit of cloudfront.