Category: Amazon CloudFront

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This blog was co-authored by Manchun Yao, Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc. Snapchat is a popular app used by hundreds of millions of people around the world to communicate with their close friends and family. Snapchat’s focus is on enabling a fast and fun way to communicate by building features such as augmented reality […]

Users of today’s web applications expect instant responses, seamless interactions, and flawless experiences, no matter where they are located. Even the slightest delay can impact user engagement. Delivering content within milliseconds is a business imperative for modern web applications serving global audiences, whether it’s an e-commerce platform processing millions of transactions or a streaming service […]

Starting today, Amazon CloudFront supports viewer mTLS authentication from end users to CloudFront, enhancing security for highly distributed and sensitive applications. In modern architectures, securing client-server communication necessitates more than standard TLS, and mTLS extends this model by enforcing bidirectional authentication. This makes sure that both the client and the server verify each other’s identity […]

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 […]