Tag: Amazon CloudFront

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.

Drupal is a powerful content management system (CMS) that has powered has powered over a million websites. Drupal is flexible, scalable, and backed by a large open source community. Amazon CloudFront can accelerate the performance of your Drupal site while also improving your overall security posture. Read more about integrating Amazon CloudFront in front of a Drupal site with this step-by-step guide.

See how you can now use Amazon CloudFront to negotiate HTTPS connections to origins using Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). ECDSA uses smaller keys that are faster, yet, just as secure, as the older RSA algorithm. The smaller keys will also increase the number of TLS handshakes that your origins can process per second, thereby saving compute cycles and reducing your cost of cryptography.

Your game development process is done and now it’s time to go to market. Read how Amazon CloudFront can accelerate the delivery of your game files and how AWS Shield and AWS WAF can protect your application.

Do you have lots of images that need to be modified before delivery? No problem with Amazon CloudFront and Lambda@Edge. Read more on how you can use our services to modify image dimensions, apply watermarks, or optimize formats based on browser support all on the fly. Optimizing your image delivery can lead to a better experience for your users while also reducing your bandwidth usage.

Authorization, the function of specifying access rights to resources is often required to help protect restricted content in web applications. This post will show you how to implement a serverless authorization of viewers using Amazon CloudFront, Lambda@Edge and Amazon Cognito without modifying your origin resources.

In this blog post, we will provide an overview of the performance, security, and cost benefits you get when using CloudFront to serve dynamic and/or static assets from Amazon EC2. We will also walk through the exercise of configuring CloudFront for Amazon EC2 origins.

Adding security response headers is often achievable by modifications to your application configuration. In this blog we will focus on how to achieve the same result when you have an application that can’t be modified at the origin (e.g., a web site hosted in Amazon S3).

Today Lambda@Edge announces a new feature that allows you to do content-based routing. Now you can programmatically define the origin based on logic in your Lambda function. This enables you to route requests to different origins based on request attributes such as headers, query strings, and cookies. Read our blog post to learn about different use cases and how you can set this up within your own architecture.