Creating a CloudFront Role in AWS

You can add your CloudFront CDN to Flumotion Smart Multi CDN and use it with your services. To do this, you need an AWS role that allows Flumotion Smart Multi CDN to manage your CloudFront distributions.

The role should have the necessary permissions to manage your CloudFront distributions in your AWS account.

Role Creation #

As part of the role creation, you’ll need to generate a UUID to use as an External ID. You can easily create the role using one of the following methods:

• Using CloudFormation: Use this quick-create link to create the role.
• Using Terraform: Use this Terraform code to create the role.

Once you have created the role, obtain the following information:

1. RoleArn – The ARN (Amazon Resource Name) of the created role.
2. External ID – The UUID you generated and used when creating the role.

Add the RoleArn and External ID when configuring your CloudFront CDN here.

Notes:

• The policy within the role grants Flumotion Smart Multi CDN access only to resources tagged with ioriver.
• If the role lacks the necessary permissions, adding CloudFront to your CDN providers will fail.

Managing Existing Distributions #

The created role restricts access to resources tagged with ioriver. Resources created through the Flumotion Smart Multi CDN platform are automatically tagged with the ioriver Owner tag.

To work with existing CloudFront distributions, you’ll need to manually add the ioriver tag to them.

To add the ioriver tag to existing distributions:

1. Sign in to your AWS account and navigate to the CloudFront page.
2. Select the distribution you want Flumotion Smart Multi CDN to access.
3. Go to the Tags tab and click Manage tags.
4. Click Add new tag.
5. Under Key, enter Owner, and under Value, enter ioriver.Click Save changes.