Category: Networking & Content Delivery

Special thanks to Raul Frias for contributing to this blog post Lambda@Edge enables you to run AWS Lambda functions globally so that you can process and respond to user requests at low latencies. Running Lambda functions in close geographical proximity to users helps satisfy a number of use cases, such as website personalization, Search Engine […]

Many customers use web filtering proxy solutions to monitor and control web traffic from their VPCs. When you have many accounts and VPCs, you will need to deploy multiple stacks of these solutions. This increases the complexity and overhead of managing these solutions. By centralizing the web filtering proxy service, you can easily and securely […]

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.

Come read the 2018 version of the AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency whitepaper. In this whitepaper, we provide you with prescriptive DDoS guidance to build applications that are resilient to DDoS attacks. We describe different attack types, such as volumetric attacks and application layer attacks, and explain which best practices are most effective to manage each attack type.

Come read how S3 & CloudFront work together and then use the CloudFormation template provided within the blog to easily get started. The CloudFormation template creates an S3 bucket and then adds a CloudFront distribution with Origin Access Identity to secure your origin.

Introduction The Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service provides you with Amazon CloudWatch metrics (HealthyHostCount and UnhealthyHostCount) to monitor the targets behind your load balancers. Although the unhealthy host count metric gives the aggregate number of failed hosts, there is a common pain point when you create an alarm for unhealthy hosts based on these metrics. […]

Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge location on the African continent.

Learn how to configure your Amazon CloudFront distribution using Lambda@Edge to serve private content from your own custom origin.

Benchmarking Content Delivery Network (CDN) performance is a common practice to understand what real end users will experience in a production environment. In this blog, we discuss how to evaluate CDN performance with the options available today for Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Synthetic monitoring.

Lambda@Edge transforms CloudFront into a highly programmable CDN with serverless compute capabilities closer to your viewers around the world. This blog is the first in a series that explains best practices associated with using Lambda@Edge functions to customize your content delivery.