Category: Amazon CloudFront

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching flat-rate pricing plans with no overages for website delivery and security. The pricing plans, available with Amazon CloudFront, combine global content delivery (CDN) with multiple AWS services and features into a monthly price with no overage charges, regardless of whether your website or application goes viral or faces […]

In November 2024, Amazon CloudFront introduced CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, a security feature that allowed customers to deliver content from applications hosted in private subnets. In addition, we are now introducing cross-account support for Amazon CloudFront VPC origins, enabling network traffic flow between Amazon CloudFront and Application Load Balancers (ALBs), Network Load Balancers […]

Amazon CloudFront is a native AWS Content Delivery Network (CDN) service. CDNs provide web acceleration by using a worldwide network of edge locations closer to end-users, and caching content at the edge. However, CloudFront can do a lot more than that, with functionality at the edge to do geo-filtering, execute functions, perform AWS Web Application […]

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, […]

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a security feature implemented by web browsers that controls which web pages or web applications are allowed to make requests to a different domain or origin. In other words, CORS is a mechanism that prevents a web page hosted on one domain from making requests for resources from a different […]

Note: This post references the use of multi-tenant or shared distributions, which has recently released more formalized support through SaaS Manager for CloudFront. Check out the latest blog to see how multiple domain delivery can leverage SaaS Manager. Amazon CloudFront is the AWS native Content Delivery Network (CDN) that reduces latency, improves availability, and secures […]

From startups to enterprises, thousands of software as a service (SaaS) solutions harness the power of Amazon CloudFront to secure, scale, and accelerate their applications globally. Building on over 16 years of innovation, we are introducing Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager, a long-awaited capability for CloudFront customers. CloudFront SaaS Manager revolutionizes how platform providers manage multi-domain […]

Modern applications often rely on public APIs to exchange information between trusted clients (such as mobile applications or web browsers) and services. Using a combination of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Edge Services (AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, and Amazon CloudFront) allow Glovo to share how they protect their public-facing APIs from a variety of external […]

Information security practitioners use internet protocol (IP) address-based security controls such as block lists and rate-based rules to block malicious traffic. However, blocking malicious traffic solely based on an IP address can unintentionally block legitimate users, resulting in false positives. This is because many users share an IP address behind a network address translation (NAT) […]

For cloud users, evaluating data transfer services can be complex, especially when the internal engineering that manages security and delivers high availability and low latency is often abstracted. We are starting a series of posts intended to demystify AWS Data Transfer services and to clarify exactly what Amazon Web Services (AWS) users get when they […]