GameLift and CloudFront

Question

Hello,

I created custom service on Game Lift for my game(I use Linux instance) and all works fine, but I also want to use some assets from cloudFront(s3) and it works when I try locally on my machine(PC), but when I create my fleet with my build(linux) I got some errors:

System.Exception: Unable to load ContentCatalogData from location https://*****.cloudfront.net/catalog_2022.******.json on second attempt.
System.Exception: Failed to load content catalog.
OperationException : ChainOperation failed because dependent operation failed
System.Exception: Failed to load content catalog.

UnityWebRequest result : ProtocolError : HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
ResponseCode : 403, Method : GET
url : https://*******.cloudfront.net/catalog_2022.******.json

Are there any additional settings so I can access the cloudfront from my instance on gamelite?
Thanks in advance!

Answer

Hi AndjelijaIng,

A few things to try:

1. Check if your policies are configured correctly: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-website-cloudfront-error-403/ 
2. Try downloading from an incognito browser locally to see if you can access the file
2. SSH/RDP to your gamelift instance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/latest/developerguide/fleets-remote-access.html, and then try accessing cloudfront from there to see if it can produce any more helpful error messages.

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