Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 2.5.1 and later.

As always we are trying to stay on top of the new functionality offered by Amazon S3 to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 and CloudFront client on Windows platform. In the release we are adding the support for CloudFront Custom origin. With this feature, customers can use any origin server they own giving them more flexibility in their use of Amazon CloudFront.

To specify a Custom Origin option, first go to the new CloudFront Manager. CloudFront | CloudFront Manager in the program menu.

Select the AWS account and click New Distribution to run CloudFront Distribution Wizard.

On the Origin and CNAME step choose Custom Origin option. Specify your domain name in the DNS field and specify the ports if they differ from the default ones. Finish the wizard specifying other options. This is all configurations you need to get started with the new option.

Note: CloudFront Manager and the ability to configure Custom Origin is PRO only feature.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://pro.cloudberrylab.com/ It is priced at $39.99

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6 comments:

matt said...: I have been trying to setup a custom origin, but it never finds the server. For example, I generated http://dwx43fteephlo.cloudfront.net/ to front web.thisorthat.com.
Server not found.

Please advise. Thanks!
-matt; November 12, 2010 1:46 PM
Matt Macchia said...: Doh! DNS propogation. Took some time I guess. It seems to be working now.
Thanks
-matt; November 12, 2010 2:04 PM
SP3336 said...: Hi

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andy said...: Thank you so much for featuring CloudBerry Explorer ion your blog. Please fill the contact form on our website to claim your free license.; November 13, 2010 5:32 AM
Vlad said...: Hi! CloudBerry Explorer Pro is the only program I could create 'custom origin' cloud. Thank you.

Can you tell me how can I invalidate content from custom origin cloud? I can do invalidation with bucket connected cloud only.

Anyway, I'm going to buy this awesome program next week.

Thanks; November 18, 2010 10:58 PM
spoon said...: I too am looking for a way to manually invalidate an object in a custom origin cloudfront distribution. THis can easily be done with an S3 bucket origin cloudfront distribution, but there does not be a way to view the objects in the cloudfront distribution - so there is no way to manually invalidate an object.

Is this a planned feature?; November 24, 2010 7:08 AM