A company is storing media content in an Amazon S3 bucket and uses Amazon CloudFront...

To restrict access to content in specific countries using CloudFront, enabling the geo restriction feature in the CloudFront distribution is the most operationally efficient solution.

Geo Restriction in CloudFront:

CloudFront allows you to use geographic restrictions, also known as geo-blocking, to prevent users in specific geographic locations from accessing content that you're distributing through a CloudFront distribution.

Enabling Geo Restriction:

Go to the CloudFront console.

Select your distribution and click on "Restrictions."

Choose "Edit" and then enable "Geo restriction."

Specify the countries you want to restrict by selecting "Whitelist" or "Blacklist" and entering the appropriate country codes.

Operational Efficiency:

This method leverages CloudFront's built-in capabilities to restrict access at the edge locations, ensuring that unauthorized requests are blocked before reaching your origin.

It is a straightforward and scalable solution without requiring changes to your S3 bucket policy or application logic.

Using Geo Restriction to Restrict Access to Your Content