Can I use HTTP Authentication with AWS CloudFront?

Hi dear technical experts,

I'm trying to put CloudFront Distribution in front of a Yum repo (RPM) that uses Basic HTTP Authentication.

Authentication is absolutely essential; as the serviced packages are not free.

I installed CloudFront Distribution w / HTTPS, Redirect from HTTP to HTTPS with the following values:

Origin: yum.mydomain.com Origin ID: smp-yum.mydomain.com

Note: smp-yum.mydomain.com doesn't exist right now, I'm not sure if it needs it?

For testing purposes, I strictly use the domain abcdefgh.cloudfront.net.

Note. For security reasons, this is a fake.

I am getting the following error trying to visit the url:

CloudFront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection. 

      

        
        
        
      

    

Since I know the host is up and accepting connections from the public internet, I can only assume that this is due to the underlying http protocol.

I also tried to include credentials in the request via

https://username:password@yum.mydomain.com/repo/url

      

        
        
        
      

    

I'm guessing this is a two-part question: is it possible to use HTTP Basic Auth? and if so, are there any headers or something I need to tweak to make it work?

Sorry if this is here, I have emphatically checked for duplicates.

Thanks again everyone!