# Use alternate domain names and HTTPS
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If you want to use your own domain name in the URLs for your files (for example, `https://www.example.com/image.jpg`) and you want your viewers to use HTTPS, you must complete the steps in the following topics. (If you use the default CloudFront distribution domain name in your URLs, for example, `https://d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net/image.jpg`, follow the guidance in the following topic instead: [Require HTTPS for communication between viewers and CloudFront](using-https-viewers-to-cloudfront.md).)

**Important**  
When you add a certificate to your distribution, CloudFront immediately propagates the certificate to all of its edge locations. As new edge locations become available, CloudFront propagates the certificate to those locations, too. You can't restrict the edge locations that CloudFront propagates the certificates to.

**Topics**
+ [Choose how CloudFront serves HTTPS requests](cnames-https-dedicated-ip-or-sni.md)
+ [Requirements for using SSL/TLS certificates with CloudFront](cnames-and-https-requirements.md)
+ [Quotas on using SSL/TLS certificates with CloudFront (HTTPS between viewers and CloudFront only)](cnames-and-https-limits.md)
+ [Configure alternate domain names and HTTPS](cnames-and-https-procedures.md)
+ [Determine the size of the public key in an SSL/TLS RSA certificate](cnames-and-https-size-of-public-key.md)
+ [Increase the quotas for SSL/TLS certificates](increasing-the-limit-for-ssl-tls-certificates.md)
+ [Rotate SSL/TLS certificates](cnames-and-https-rotate-certificates.md)
+ [Revert from a custom SSL/TLS certificate to the default CloudFront certificate](cnames-and-https-revert-to-cf-certificate.md)
+ [Switch from a custom SSL/TLS certificate with dedicated IP addresses to SNI](cnames-and-https-switch-dedicated-to-sni.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon CloudFront. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonCloudFront` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).