Introducing the Amazon CloudFront Ready Program

By Rachele Gyorffy, Edge Partner Sales Specialist – AWS
By Joanne Moore, Sr. Launch Product Manager – AWS

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) built for high performance, security, and developer convenience. With 310+ global Points of Presence (PoPs), Amazon CloudFront caches customer content closer to end users, helping deliver secure, low-latency applications and websites.

Thousands of customers including Slack, Hulu, and Marriott International utilize CloudFront to reduce origin load, secure their applications, and ensure uptime and availability for end users.

As customers have shifted to building applications in the cloud, they require the right tools and software solutions to help them build and distribute scalable, highly engaging applications and online experiences for customers.

We’re excited to announce the new Amazon CloudFront Ready Program, part of the AWS Service Ready Program which validates software products built by AWS Partners that integrate with specific services such as CloudFront.

Amazon CloudFront Ready Partners provide solutions-focused offerings to Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers in the end-to-end media management, security, monitoring and analytics, and transfer acceleration space. Their solutions help complement and augment existing AWS services in order to help customers optimize their use of CloudFront.

Learn more about Amazon CloudFront Ready Partner Software Offerings >>

Launch Partner Showcase

We invite you to explore the following Amazon CloudFront Ready software offerings recommended by AWS.

Amagi Media Labs | Amagi CLOUDPORT

Cloud-based channel playout platform that can distribute your video content to any platform, anywhere.

Cequence Security | Cequence Security botDefense SaaS

Cequence Bot Defense complements native AWS security features by mitigating automated attacks and business logic abuse. These attacks appear to be legitimate transactions, targeting the public-facing web, mobile applications, and APIs deployed on AWS. Bot Defense does not require any JavaScript or mobile SDK integration to collect the attack telemetry needed to prevent malicious automated bot attacks that can result in fraud or data loss.

Cloudinary | Cloudinary Media Management with Amazon CloudFront

Cloudinary provides an end-to-end media management solution for developers and marketers to manage rich media assets from upload, tag, manage, transform, and optimize to delivery—all in a single platform. AWS customers can leverage their CloudFont and CloudFront functions account in conjunction with Cloudinary to delivery rich media assets across devices to deliver the optimal quality, format, and size of the image/video.

F5 | F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense – Fully Managed Service

Prevents bot attacks that can result in large-scale fraud, inflated operational costs, and friction for your end users.

HUMAN | BotGuard for Applications

HUMAN Security is a global leader in collective protection against bot attacks and fraud. It protects enterprises across the globe, including the largest internet platforms, from sophisticated bot attacks by verifying the humanity of more than five trillion online interactions every week.

Nomad Technologies | Nomad for Amazon CloudFront

Nomad is an intuitive cloud-based content and asset management platform powered by AWS artificial intelligence (AI) technology that transforms the way you manage your ever-growing content libraries.

Mux | Video Performance Analytics / Quality of Experience Analytics

Mux is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution offering real-time performance monitoring and analytics for video streaming, helping online media publishers deliver better quality of experience (QoE) to their viewers.

Zenlayer | Zenlayer Global Accelerator

Global intelligence acceleration service, without deploying infrastructure, providing dynamic acceleration from end to any source.
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Customers: Get Started with a CloudFront Ready Product

Amazon CloudFront Ready products make the adoption and utilization of CloudFront simple by providing a wide selection of software offerings that align, support, or embed Amazon CloudFront.

We invite you to learn more about Amazon CloudFront Ready Partner software offerings.

Partners: Join the CloudFront Ready Program

Review the Amazon CloudFront Ready Validation Checklist (login required) to determine whether this designation fits your company’s software offering and technical strengths.

AWS Partners looking to get their Amazon CloudFront software offering validated through the AWS Service Ready Program must be validated members of AWS Software Partner Path and pass their Foundational Technical Review (FTR) prior to applying.

To apply, please review the Program Guide and access the application in AWS Partner Central (login required).