Networking & Content Delivery

Category: HAQM CloudFront

Reminder: HAQM S3 and HAQM CloudFront service certificates migrating to HAQM Trust Services starting March 23, 2021

This is a reminder that HAQM S3 and HAQM CloudFront are migrating their default TLS certificates from DigiCert to HAQM Trust Services, beginning on March 23, 2021. In 2018, AWS announced a broad migration of AWS services’ TLS certificates to our own Certificate Authority, HAQM Trust Services (ATS). Your action may be required to ensure your applications continue normal operation after this […]

Improve your website availability with HAQM CloudFront

In this blog post, you will learn about the features of HAQM CloudFront that help you avoid unexpected failures and improve website availability. Click here to learn more about edge networking with AWS. When using CloudFront with your website, one of the inherent benefits is the ability to cache content. This helps to reduce the […]

CloudFront Migration Series (Part 3): OLX Europe, The DevOps Way

Business and scale at OLX Group At OLX Group, we operate the fastest-growing network of trading platforms globally. Serving 300 million people every month in 30+ countries around the world, OLX Group helps buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and much more. With more than 20 well-loved local […]

On-the-fly video conversion with HAQM CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, and AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Introduction: Whether your media library includes long form featured movies or short form “how-to” clips, the popularity of each video asset is typically set by your viewers preference. In order to deliver your online video content, AWS offers multiple solutions that you can use to automate your media supply chain, and streamline your content distribution. […]

Using CloudFront Origin Shield to protect your origin in a multi-CDN deployment

This blog details how HAQM CloudFront’s recently announced Origin Shield can enhance your multi-CDN media workload by minimizing the load on our your origin. This reduction in origin load can improve your origin’s availability, reduce its operating costs, and even improve general performance for your viewers.

Customize 403 error pages from HAQM CloudFront Origin with Lambda@Edge

AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) is commonly used to protect HTTP and HTTPS requests forwarded to HAQM CloudFront. When you are using this approach, default 403 error pages do not distinguish whether the error came from AWS WAF or the CloudFront Origin. As an AWS WAF and HAQM CloudFront user, you may want to […]

Audible Plus

CloudFront Migration Series (Part 2): Audible Plus, The Turning Point

Introduction In 2020, users have come to expect a flawless streaming media experience, whether it’s video, music, or audiobooks. Playback must start quickly and be resilient to changes in network availability and bandwidth. To deliver all of this content, you must have a performant, highly available and reliable Content Delivery Network (CDN) to reach customers […]

Leverage HAQM CloudFront geolocation headers for state level geo-targeting

Introduction When you provide content online, personalization is used to improve your customers’ experience, market effectively, and meet regulatory requirements. One common way you can personalize web content is based on the geographical location of your customers. Since 2014, HAQM CloudFront has supported country-level location based personalization with a feature called Geolocation Headers. Using the […]

CloudFront migration series (Part 1) – introduction

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. This is the first post in a blog series about HAQM CloudFront migrations. CloudFront works with other AWS edge networking services, to provide content delivery, perimeter security, end-user routing, and edge compute. CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN), which […]

Securing CloudFront distributions

Securing CloudFront Distributions using OpenID Connect and AWS Secrets Manager

HAQM CloudFront is a CDN that is used to securely deliver content, applications, and APIs to globally dispersed customers with low-latency and high transfer speeds. HAQM CloudFront is ideal for serving-up websites, caching content, and delivering static files to users across the globe. This blog post will allow organizations who host private web apps on HAQM […]