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CloudFront distributions should have origin failover configured

Checks that the CloudFront distribution has an origin group of two origins, so CloudFront can send a request the primary origin fails to the secondary. Only the group is read: one that no cache behavior uses passes and fails over nothing. Failover covers GET, HEAD and OPTIONS requests only.

service
CloudFront
severity
Low
scope
evaluated once per account

How to fix it

In the console

CloudFront → Distributions → the distribution → Origins → Origin groups

Origins
A primary and a secondary origin that can serve the same content, the primary first
Failover criteria
Status codes such as 500, 502, 503 and 504; 503 also covers a failed connection and 504 a timeout
Behaviors → Origin or origin group
The origin group, on each behavior that must survive an origin outage; this check does not read it

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