Pelanor provides a dedicated CloudFront integration that enables precise object-level cost allocation for CloudFront requests and their underlying S3 buckets. The integration relies on CloudFront logs.

Additional charges may apply for CloudFront log access.

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Installation Steps

Follow these steps for each CloudFront distribution you want to monitor:

1

Open the CloudFront Console

Open CloudFront in the AWS Management Console.

2

Select your distribution

Choose the distribution you want to configure.

3

Enable logging

Go to the Logging tab and click Add → Amazon S3.

If this option is disabled, CloudFront logs are already being exported to an S3 bucket.
Contact Pelanor Support for alternative setup options.

4

Choose the destination bucket

Select your Pelanor artifact bucket as the destination.

  • Bucket name format: pelanor-external-{uuid}
  • If you don’t have one, update your AWS integration or contact Pelanor
5

Set partitioning path

Expand Additional settings and set the partitioning path to:
cloudfront-logs/{DistributionId}/{yyyy}/{MM}/{dd}/

6

Set output format

For Output format, select Parquet.

7

Save configuration

Click Submit to save your changes.