amazon web services - how to efficiently redirect url in Cloudfront without S3

Question

My requirement is to redirect url from Cloudfront. So for this I see there are possibilities to do using Lambda function as mentioned here.

My application is not hosted in S3, rather it is hosted in Apache webserver which is running on some EC2 instance. Because redirect rules are many so I would like Lambda function to read configuration of redirect mapping from some other place but I do not know what could be the other place. I see it is possible to read either from S3 or SNS topic. Could you please suggest what is the best practice to store redirect mapping and handle redirect via Lambda?

As I understood it is not possible to do using Route53 to read mapping and then do redirect. Please correct me if I am wrong.

I am new to this and would request your expert guidance!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65863424/how-to-efficiently-redirect-url-in-cloudfront-without-s3

Answer 1

I think you are mistaking some concepts. If I got it right you need a CDN for an Apache server on EC2. In that case you want Cloudfront with EC2 as origin . https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/getting-started/EC2/