Multiple distributions without assigning CNAME

Question

From my understanding, the SSL option on CloudFront is a costly option (out of reach for me). Therefore, I am considering using the https://*.cloudfront.com option.

One of the perks of CF over S3 is the ability of assigning multiple custom domains to get the benefit concurrent parallel HTTP connections, ie. cdn0.domain.com, cdn1.domain.com, etc.

Since custom domain + SSL is not an option, does CF have a wildcard option of the https://*[0,1,2,3].cloudfront.com variant to a single distribution?

Answer 1

The solution would be to only have multiple CF distributions in this case... one for images, another for static code (JS, CSS) etc. Typically if you are already keeping these images etc in S3 bucket, have separate bucket for each type (say one for image) and make these buckets origin servers in the CF distribution.

Having said that, the concurrent connections in a browsers have increased over time. It is not that small anyway. Typically a page needs to load only one JS (combined. minified), one CSS(combined. minified) and one Image for Icons (sprited). This is like only 1 + 3 connections - not too high. Other images (like large thumbnails etc) in the page anyway come from another CF distibution. So you dont have to "artifically" create sub-domains for performance.

This shows the state of connections now : (What's the maximum number of simultaneous connections a browser will make?)