Edge networking with AWS

Redirection management is a common requirement on websites, often used to redirect non existing URLs, or to localize content based on country.

AWS Edge services are important components for building web applications with high availability.

Edge functions are powerful developer tools to add custom logic at the edge with CloudFront.

A/B testing or canary deployments technique allow developers to experiment with two or more variants of a web page.

Dynamic traffic (e.g. APIs or very personalized webpages) are little to not cacheable, but can benefit from the security and acceleration of AWS edge services.

If you serve users in China, consider using local infrastructure there to enhance the performance and availability of your web applications.

Images are commonly the heaviest components of a web page. Optimize images to improve user experience, reduce content delivery costs, and enhance SEO.

Measuring performance is the starting point to identify opportunities for improving the speed of web applications.

Increasing the Cache Hit Ratio (CHR) with CloudFront improves the performance of a web application, and reduces the load on its origin.

Applications built on AWS benefit from native DDoS protections and can be designed to be highly resilient against these attacks using AWS services.

Origin Cloaking stops malicious actors from by-passing CloudFront and its security controls to attack the origin directly.

Large organizations, with many teams developing and operating web applications, employ tools and processes for driving consistency of security controls.

Web applications exposing private content require access control mechanisms to ensure that only authorized users can access the content.

OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for web application security. OWASP Top 10 risks can be addressed with AWS provided tools and guidance.

Thwart cyber threats, such as DDoS attacks, undesired bot traffic and malicious CVE exploits.

Companies implement geo-blocking policies on web applications for different reasons (e.g. regulatory with embargoed countries).

Automated bot traffic can negatively impact on your web application, in terms of availability, infrastructure costs, skewed analytics and fraudulent activities.

Streaming video during large scale events requires additional due diligence and planning to ensure a successful delivery.

Protecting video content from un-authorized access is one of the top priorities of media companies.

Multi-CDN is an approach for video delivery at high scale, driven by the need of more aggregated capacity, increased resiliency or better performance.

Learn about options for creating a Video on Demand (VoD) workflow using AWS services, covering aspects from content ingestion to delivery and monetization.

Learn how to build scalable live video streaming workflows using AWS services, from content ingestion and processing to global delivery and monetization.

Best practices to migrate your Content Delivery Network (CDN) from 3rd party solutions to Amazon CloudFront.

Troubleshoot issues helps you to quickly remediate errors that can happen at different part of your web application: CloudFront, edge functions, or the origin.

Monitoring application delivery helps detecting unusual events and respond to them appropriately.

Learn about the best practices for safely introducing changes to the configuration of AWS Edge Services.

Get deep insights about the traffic patterns of web applications, to harden WAF protections, tune delivery performance or improve your SEO ranking.

In addition to its benefits for performance, security and availability of your web application, CloudFront can be used to reduce the costs of web application.

Multi-tenant deployments of CloudFront require careful design to meet business requirements such as flexibility, cost, scalability and operational overhead.

Hands-on tutorials and content covering the basic concepts.