Category: Amazon CloudFront

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 […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide choice of networking services. While these services enable AWS to meet more customer needs around networking, that variety increases the number of available options to consider in making architectural decisions when designing AWS and hybrid networking infrastructure. Cost is one of the main factors that drive architectural decisions […]

Application owners often rely on content management systems (CMS) to publish and manage content on their websites. WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system. Originally launched as a blogging platform back in 2003, WordPress now powers 43% of all websites and controls a massive 64.3% of the known CMS market. The purpose of this […]

While website performance issues are a common occurrence, pinpointing their root causes can be a challenging task. In this post, you will learn how to simplify the performance troubleshooting process by unlocking the potential of the Server-Timing header. This header allows backend components to communicate timing metrics and other insights relevant to performance monitoring in […]

[Update on May 7th 2025] Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager introduces a new type of distribution called a multi-tenant distribution. A key challenge for SaaS providers is designing secure, scalable tenant routing mechanisms to identify tenants and route requests to appropriate resources. Effective tenant routing ensures isolation, scalability, and security. This post explores strategies for routing […]

Today, we released the CloudFront Hosting Toolkit, an open source command line interface (CLI) tool to help you deploy fast and secure front-ends in the cloud. Install the CloudFront Hosting Toolkit CLI through npm, run two commands, and CloudFront Hosting Toolkit CLI automatically creates the deployment pipeline and infrastructure needed to build, deploy, and serve your front-end […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a streamlined solution for you to monitor internet traffic to your CloudFront distribution with simple integration for Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor in the Amazon CloudFront console. Ensuring optimal performance and availability is paramount for internet applications. With this integration, you can easily gain more insights into internet health and your users’ experience for an application that you’ve set up with a CloudFront distribution.