Fastly

Using S3 as origin

You can make your S3 data buckets available through Fastly. The process is very simple. Once you are logged in click on Configure. Then click on New Service. You will be presented with a dialog like this one.

Fill out as follows

• Name: Any descriptive name for your service
• Server Address: s3.amazonaws.com
• Domain Name: Here you put the host name that you want to use in the URL e.g. cdn.domain.com

Now that the service is created you will need to set the Default Host to the name of yourbucket.s3.amazonaws.com e.g.

When you're done, just click Deploy. Your service should be active within few seconds. By default we create DNS mapping called yourdomain.global.prod.fastly.net e.g. in above case that will be cdn.domain.com.global.prod.fastly.net. Please test and if you are satisfied with the results create a DNS alias from the domain name you specified e.g. cdn.domain.com to cdn.domain.com.global.prod.fastly.net.

By default our service will cache any content that doesn't have explicitly set Cache headers for 1 hour. To verify whether you are sending any cache header use the curl command e.g.

    $ curl -I opscode-full-stack.s3.amazonaws.com
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    x-amz-id-2: ZpzRp7IWc6MJ8NtDEFGH12QBdk2CM1+RzVOngQbhMp2f2ZyalkFsZd4qPaLMkSlh
    x-amz-request-id: ABV5032583242618
    Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2012 17:15:38 GMT
    Content-Type: application/xml
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    Server: AmazonS3
    

In this example no cache control headers are set so default TTL will be applied.

Enhanced cache control

If you need more control over how different types of assets are cached e.g. Javascript files, images, media check out our Amazon S3 configuration in Cache Control tutorial.