Tag: Networking & Content Delivery

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 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.

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).

This blog post was originally published November 6 2017 by Ronan Guilfoyle on the AWS Startups Blog. Read this step by step guide to get your WordPress site running better than ever and ready for any sudden traffic spikes.

This blog post was originally published November 1 2017 on Jeff Barr’s AWS Blog. Read more about CloudFront’s recent launch of its 100th Edge Location and its some of its notable highlights from the past year.