Your CloudFront Access Key ID & Private Key can be found within your AWS account. (Note: Access Key ID is different from Public key).

See the CloudFront Integration video at S3MediaVault.com/doc/ that shows you how to retrieve this information.

Further explanation below, but here's the summary: To speed up your S3 media delivery to your members/viewers even faster than what S3 already gives you, by adding CloudFront on top of your S3 buckets, enter the CloudFront Public and Private Keys from your AWS account in the respective fields below and then click on "Create CloudFront Distribution" button.

What is CloudFront?

CloudFront is an additional layer that sits on top of your Amazon S3 bucket, and speeds up the delivery of the media in your S3 bucket.

Think of it as adding "Turbo Boost" to your S3 media.

The image on the left shows that your Amazon S3 bucket is a single location stored in the cloud, and when visitors to your website from all over the world try to access a video, audio, pdf or other media stored in that S3 bucket, they are still served those files from that one central location.

Which means, the farther they are geographically from your S3 bucket, the longer (even if it's just milliseconds longer) it will take to serve them the file.

But CloudFront has various "edge locations" (those little clouds you see in the image on the right) spread globally.

So when a US visitor tries to access, say, a video in your online course, if it's the first time, then the "edge location" (cloud) closest to that person, will copy that file from your S3 bucket to the local cloud. And from that point onwards, every US person who tries to access that video, will be served that video from the local cloud, and not from the S3 bucket.

And because Amazon has these edge locations all over the world, your visitors from all over the world will see that your videos, audio and PDF start loading super-fast, because it's loading from a local cloud that's closest to them.