Networking & Content Delivery
Author: Karan Desai
Karan Desai is a Solutions Architect at AWS in India. He has over eleven years of cloud industry experience, with a focus on edge technologies and networking. He currently works with small businesses, designing scalable cost-efficient solutions that empower them to modernize and grow using the AWS cloud.
Secure your Lambda function URLs using Amazon CloudFront origin access control
In 2022, we launched Lambda function URLs as a simple way to configure an HTTPS endpoint for your AWS Lambda function without having to learn, configure, and operate additional services. Customers who want to improve the performance and security of their applications running with Lambda function URLs can deploy Amazon CloudFront in front of Lambda function URLs […]
Prepare and run performance tests for Amazon Cloudfront with Real User Monitoring
This blog post is written by Tanya Pahuja and Sumit Bhardwaj, Technical Account Managers – AWS Enterprise Support, with Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS For consumer-facing websites and mobile apps, the speed at which the content loads on the user’s screens directly impacts the user’s browsing experience and the success of your business. If […]
Cost-Optimizing your AWS architectures by utilizing Amazon CloudFront features
Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) that makes it easy to deliver websites, videos, apps, and APIs securely and at high speeds with low latency. You can use CloudFront to reduce latency by delivering data through 400+ globally dispersed Points of Presence (PoPs) and improve security with traffic encryption, access controls, and […]
Limit access to your origins using the AWS-managed prefix list for Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront provides an easy and cost-effective way to distribute content with low latency and high data transfer speeds using a worldwide network of edge locations. To enable requests from CloudFront to access your origins (the source of your content, for example, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, the security policies on your origin […]
Visitor Prioritization on e-Commerce Websites with CloudFront and Lambda@Edge
For online retailers, the annual holiday season, special sales and new product launches are all exciting events that typically drive a rapid increase in site traffic. With Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge, you can now build a Flash Crowd Management workflow that lets you control what proportion of incoming shopper traffic is allowed to access your backend application, while directing the remaining shoppers to a temporary waiting room- an alternate site where you can provide them a branded experience while they await their turn to access the application.