Sometimes, you want to change the access destinations of static website content such as images and videos, but don't want to make changes to the existing systems. You can achieve this by providing a proxy server using rewrite proxy patterns. To change the destination of static content to other storage such as content service or internet storage, you can use a proxy server in front of the web server fleet. As shown in the following architecture diagram, you have a proxy server in front of your application layer, which helps to change the content delivery destination without modifying the actual application:
As shown in the preceding diagram, to accomplish a rewrite proxy pattern, place the proxy server in front of the currently running system. You can construct a proxy server using software such as Apache NGINX. The following are the steps to build a rewrite proxy pattern:
- Put a running proxy server on an EC2 instance, which...
