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Re:Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you ... by philsnow on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:46AM (#13023810)
What makes you think that when cloudfront requests objects internally from s3, it's using http?

It could just as easily be connecting with s2n and authenticating both endpoints of the connection.

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Re:Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you ... by colinbartlett on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @12:17PM (#13024033)
This article[1] states the following, though it doesn't cite any specific source:

> CloudFront will use encryption when retrieving data from its storage service S3 (Simple Storage Service), so the content is protected all the way from where it is stored to the user's computer, according to Amazon.

1. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2518747/data-center/use...

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Re:Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you ... by nitrogen on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @12:05PM (#13023943)
It says so in the CloudFront distribution setup, when you point it at an s3-website-[region] URL instead of directly at an S3 bucket.
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