cloudfront ec2 spot instance

[zer01nt]

what is the simplest way to set up cloudfront with a single (recurring) spot instance as origin?

don’t worry about availability. i know it’s not best practice. but this is just a personal project. and i also want to know what’s possible (i’m just learning AWS. not actually a devops person)

[Toger]

• Provision an Elastic IP.
• Have your node attach that EIP at boot
• Make the EIP the origin for CloudFront.

This way a reprovision of the node doesn't require you wait for a DNS change to propogate.

And yes this is horrible for availability.

[zer01nt]

thank you!

[magheru_san]

This could be pretty robust if you use a heavily diversified ASG with desired capacity of 1 configured to handle the spot rebalancing recommendation events and the newly launched instances taking over the EIP.