Re: The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

On 4/12/21 5:33 PM, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 4/12/21 5:13 PM, felix(dot)quintgz(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
>> Unfortunately the official site for downloading the installer is blocked
>> for me.
>> I only had that option and trust what I am downloading.
>
> That wasn't your only option. Other members have suggested that you
> contact EnterpriseDB directly.
>
> Note that CloudFront is just a content service by Amazon Web Services. The
> owner of that content, in this case EnterpriseDB, controls those
> "GeoRestrictions", that you are having trouble with. See
>
>> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/georestrictions.html
>>
>
> for details.
>
> It is possible that this restriction is on purpose and that EDB really
> doesn't want people from your country to download those files. It is also
> possible that this particular download got that restriction by mistake,
> either on EDB's side or on the side of the third-party GeoIP service,
> Amazon is using to determine the origin of your IP address. I know a few
> people at EDB (I did work there in the past). Asking them won't do any
> harm and if all of this is actually by mistake, they will be glad you asked.

It's quite possible that EDB added the restriction because OP is from a
country on the US-restricted list (and that country also bans VPNs).

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