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A company stores images for a website in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company is using Amazon CloudFront to serve the images to the end users. The company recently discovered that the images are being accessed form countries where the company does not have a distribution license.
Which actions should the company take to secure the images to limit their distribution? (Choose two.)

  • A. Update the S3 bucket policy to restrict access to a CloudFront origin access identity (OAI).
  • B. Update the website DNS record to use an Amazon Route 53 geolocation record deny list of countries where the company lacks a license.
  • C. Add a CloudFront geo restriction deny list of countries where the company lacks a license.
  • D. Update the S3 bucket policy with a deny list of countries where the company lacks a license.
  • E. Enable the Restrict Viewer Access option in CloudFront to create a deny list of countries where the company lacks a license.
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Suggested Answer: AC 🗳️

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Igloo
Highly Voted 3 years, 9 months ago
Answer: A C For Enable Geo-Restriction, choose Yes. For Restriction Type, choose Whitelist to allow access to certain countries, or choose Blacklist to block access from certain countries. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloudfront-geo-restriction/
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Raphaello
Most Recent 1 year, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: AC
Restrict access to CF distro through OAI might not directly help with geo-restriction, until you pick option C alongside it. It enforces flow to be only through CF, where the geo-restriction in place. AC are correct.
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Toptip
2 years, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: AC
A,C no doubts
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sakibmas
2 years, 6 months ago
Selected Answer: AC
Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloudfront-geo-restriction/
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Teknoklutz
2 years, 6 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A with Remove DefaultAllowAll SCP
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D2
2 years, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: AC
Answer AC
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Fyssy
2 years, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: AC
AC right answer
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HieuTT
2 years, 8 months ago
AC is right answer
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VijiTu
2 years, 9 months ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68771912/restrict-my-amazon-s3-bucket-access-to-specific-country Based on the above link finalizing C is the right option. Hence opting AC
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Root_Access
2 years, 10 months ago
Selected Answer: AD
A to make sure files cannot be accessed directly. C because: To add geographic restrictions to your CloudFront web distribution (console) Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the CloudFront console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/v3/home. Choose the distribution that you want to update. Choose Geographic restrictions. Choose Edit. Select Allow list to create a list of allowed countries, or Block list to create a list of blocked countries. Add the desired countries to the list, then choose Save changes https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/georestrictions.html
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Root_Access
2 years, 10 months ago
should be AC, cant edit!
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MoreOps
3 years, 3 months ago
Selected Answer: AC
a and c , only allow access from the CF, and then apply geo-restrictions on CF
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jayaj
3 years, 5 months ago
AC https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/georestrictions.html
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Cloudvin
3 years, 7 months ago
A&C C- restricts access from unlicensed countries A - Make sure y only use cloudfront to access images ( s3 direct url won't work )
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hk436
3 years, 8 months ago
AC is my answer.!
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kiev
3 years, 8 months ago
AC. the issue here is with people accessing website from countries without license and so we should limit access to Cloudfront only and use cloudfront geolocation to make sure only licensed countries can access website
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fais1985
3 years, 8 months ago
If you restrict OAI, you will have chances to make the s3 objects access via public
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fais1985
3 years, 8 months ago
Correct Answer is B & E https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/18/amazon-cloudfront-adds-geo-restriction-feature/#:~:text=We%20are%20excited%20to%20announce,CloudFront%20to%20deliver%20your%20content.
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EricR17
3 years, 8 months ago
That article is announcing Cloudfront's ability to block by geolocation. Answer: AC
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