Author: Jaiganesh Girinathan

Update (May 2026): Amazon CloudFront now natively supports tag-based cache invalidation — no additional infrastructure required. You can tag cached objects via origin response headers or S3 metadata and invalidate them by tag directly through the CloudFront API. For details, see the CloudFront Developer Guide and the launch blog post. If you are starting fresh, […]

Today, Amazon CloudFront is launching Invalidation by Cache Tag, a new capability that transforms how developers manage cached content. With this feature, you can invalidate groups of related cached objects using a single invalidation request, regardless of URL structure—making cache management more precise, efficient, and developer-friendly. In this post, we discuss the benefits of this […]

We recently announced that the AWS Load Balancer Controller now supports AWS Global Accelerator through a new declarative Kubernetes API. This integration brings the power of AWS’s global network infrastructure directly into your Kubernetes workflows, enabling improved application performance by up to 60% for users worldwide, all without leaving your Kubernetes environment. AWS Global Accelerator […]

Amazon CloudFront announced support for Amazon Route 53 HTTPS DNS alias record across its global network, enabling clients to discover the optimal HTTP protocol during the initial DNS resolution phase rather than in a subsequent connection step. This helps users improve performance and security, and simultaneously reduce operational expenses. This post explores the implementation details, […]

In this post, you’ll learn about the ‘multi-function packager’ framework that handles the assembly and execution of discrete Edge functions. Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that improves the performance, availability, and security of your application, allowing you to serve a consistent experience to your viewers globally. Lambda@Edge and CloudFront Functions are the […]

In this post, you’ll learn how to secure and accelerate the delivery of Drupal-based websites using Amazon CloudFront, AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF), and Amazon CloudFront Functions. CloudFront is a content delivery network service (CDN) offering improved security and acceleration of the content served through it. This is true for static cacheable content and […]

In this blog, you will learn how to use the Lambda Function URL feature to define a AWS Lambda Function as origin for Amazon CloudFront. Lambda Function URL capability provides a dedicated HTTPS endpoint for your Lambda function deployed in an AWS Region. Function URLs are a great fit for use cases where you must […]

In continuation with our series on Handling Redirects@Edge, in this blog post, we will explore how you can leverage Amazon CloudFront, Lambda@Edge and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to offload the origin from URL redirection with more advanced capabilities. As part of this solution, we offer a simple custom-built user interface to define and manage […]

A HTTP URL redirect is a webserver function that redirects a user to a different URL from the one they originally requested. Redirections are useful when you want a short easy to remember URL which when accessed redirects you to the actual landing page. URL shortener services are a good example of this use case. […]

This post discusses the basics of setting up a simple serverless video on demand (VOD) workflow so you can experiment with streaming video with minimal configurations required. (If you have a more advanced VOD use case, check out this post and CloudFormation template from AWS Answers.) To setup a serveless video transcoding workflow, you first […]