Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Edge
A sneak peek at the Network and Infrastructure Security track sessions for re:Inforce 2023
AWS re:Inforce is fast approaching, and this post can help you plan your agenda. AWS re:Inforce is a security conference where you can gain skills and learn about the latest solutions in cloud security, compliance, identity, and privacy. As a re:Inforce attendee, you will have access to hundreds of technical and non-technical sessions, an Expo featuring […]
Accelerate, protect and make dynamic workloads delivery cost efficient with Amazon CloudFront
Whether you’re serving dynamic content from an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (Amazon ELB), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon API Gateway, or AWS Lambda to the end users on the Internet, you can improve the performance and security, and optimize the cost of your content delivery by using Amazon CloudFront as your content delivery network (CDN). […]
Limiting requests to a web application using a Gatekeeper Solution
Many types of organizations encounter DDOS attacks daily. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, is an attack pattern that generates fake traffic to overwhelm organisation’s properties (websites, APIs, applications, etc.) and make it unavailable to legitimate users. They majority of these attacks involve a huge burst of fake traffic that exhausts the application’s resources (Memory […]
Visitor Prioritization on e-Commerce Websites with CloudFront and CloudFront Functions
When we wrote the previous post (Visitor Prioritization on e-Commerce Websites with CloudFront and Lambda@Edge) five years ago, Visitor Prioritization was a relatively new concept. Since then, we saw a huge need for traffic shaping, throttling, and request prioritizing, especially in the gaming and media industries. Of course, e-Commerce sites still require this capability for […]
Optimize content delivery for mobile devices with Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront lets you securely deliver data, videos, applications, and APIs to your global customers with low latency and high transfer speeds. In today’s digital-first world with a worldwide customer base, it’s important to deliver digital assets to end users with the lowest possible load time. Mobile devices now account for approximately 70% of internet traffic [1]. […]
Amazon CloudFront introduces Origin Access Control (OAC)
Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network that securely delivers applications, websites, videos, and APIs to viewers across the globe in milliseconds. Using CloudFront, customers can access different types of origin services to suit their use cases. One of the performant architectures customers adopt is to use Amazon S3 as the origin to host […]
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 […]
CloudFront migration series (Part 1) – introduction
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This is the first post in a blog series about Amazon CloudFront migrations. CloudFront works with other AWS edge networking services, to provide content delivery, perimeter security, end-user routing, and edge compute. CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN), which […]