I am uploading images via CarrierWave in my Rails 4 app, to an AWS S3 Bucket. I also have Cloudfront setup, which currently serves up all of my statis assets (Excl. Public uploads).
How do I serve uploaded images via Cloudfront instead of S3, even though they are stored in an S3 Bucket? I have found tutorials like this, but since I already have a CloudFront distribution running, I was wondering if I should add another one for my Public Image uploads or is there a way to add it to my Current distribution.
You can add the bucket as an additional custom origin to your existing Cloudfront distribution.
You can then use path patterns to determine which prefixes (e.g.
/images/uploads/*) should route to the alternate origin.http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-web-values-specify.html#DownloadDistValuesPathPattern
Since creating distributions doesn't cost anything except a few minutes of your time while you wait for the distribution to become globally available, I'd suggest creating a new distribution for experimentation before adding this to your production distribution... but this is definitely doable.