“However, the S3 website endpoint is publicly available. Anyone who knows this endpoint can therefore also request your content while bypassing CloudFront. If both URLs are crawled by Google, you risk getting a penalty for duplicate content.”
I’m curious if anyone has experienced these issues in practice.
I run the setup of S3 + Cloudfront and never ran into their index problem because I'm not trying for URLs without document file extensions.
I assume that's the reason for really wanting index redirect in directories. Pretty URLs, I didn't feel the need. There are other valid reasons too I'm sure. But my needs diverged from the article even earlier than SEO penalties.
“However, the S3 website endpoint is publicly available. Anyone who knows this endpoint can therefore also request your content while bypassing CloudFront. If both URLs are crawled by Google, you risk getting a penalty for duplicate content.”
I’m curious if anyone has experienced these issues in practice.