Category: HAQM CloudFront

Come read the 2018 version of the AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency whitepaper. In this whitepaper, we provide you with prescriptive DDoS guidance to build applications that are resilient to DDoS attacks. We describe different attack types, such as volumetric attacks and application layer attacks, and explain which best practices are most effective to manage each attack type.

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.

HAQM CloudFront announces its first Edge location on the African continent.

Learn how to configure your HAQM CloudFront distribution using Lambda@Edge to serve private content from your own custom origin.

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.

Lambda@Edge provides you with the ability to bring compute power closer to client applications. With the recent increase in function limits and ability to send binary responses, as well as the addition of remote calling from functions, the capabilities of Lambda@Edge have grown. This post demonstrates how you can take an application with a relatively slow rate of changing data and use Lambda@Edge to both provide low latency data to application clients and remove unnecessary calls to a backend service.

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. HAQM CloudFront can accelerate the performance of your Drupal site while also improving your overall security posture. Read more about integrating HAQM CloudFront in front of a Drupal site with this step-by-step guide.

See how you can now use HAQM 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 HAQM CloudFront can accelerate the delivery of your game files and how AWS Shield and AWS WAF can protect your application.