Networking & Content Delivery
Tag: HAQM CloudFront Functions
Secure and accelerate your WordPress CMS with HAQM CloudFront, AWS WAF, and edge functions
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 […]
Writing and testing CloudFront Functions with production traffic
While maintaining a web application, sometimes we need to build a simple logic that must run in low latency. For example, you may want to set up website redirection based on condition, or quickly verify an incoming header. CloudFront Functions is ideal for these use cases since it lets you write lightweight JavaScript code that […]
Introducing multi-function packager, allowing more than one function per event trigger on HAQM CloudFront
In this post, you’ll learn about the ‘multi-function packager’ framework that handles the assembly and execution of discrete Edge functions. HAQM CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that improves the performance, availability, and security of your application, allowing you to serve a consistent experience to your viewers globally. Lambda@Edge and CloudFront Functions are the […]
Secure and accelerate Drupal CMS with HAQM CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Edge Functions
In this post, you’ll learn how to secure and accelerate the delivery of Drupal-based websites using HAQM CloudFront, AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF), and HAQM CloudFront Functions. CloudFront is a content delivery network service (CDN) offering improved security and acceleration of the content served through it. This is true for static cacheable content and […]
Lowering Latency by Moving OPTIONS to the Edge
At IMDb, we run a Federated GraphQL Gateway on AWS Lambda that backs our website and apps and handles over 10,000 peak TPS. For more information about how we built that, see our three posts: building GraphQL on Lambda, managing federated schemas, and monitoring and tuning. As our website adds more features that call GraphQL […]
Optimize content delivery for mobile devices with HAQM CloudFront
HAQM CloudFront lets you securely deliver data, videos, applications, and APIs to your global customers with low latency and high transfer speeds. In today’s digital-first world with a worldwide customer base, it’s important to deliver digital assets to end users with the lowest possible load time. Mobile devices now account for approximately 70% of internet traffic [1]. […]
Complying with city-level embargos using HAQM CloudFront
Introduction You may run into occasions where, due to sanctions from governmental organizations like OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control), you need to implement granular city-level embargos for your websites. This blog will walk you through an approach to achieving this using HAQM CloudFront geolocation headers and HAQM CloudFront Functions. Note that geographical restrictions at […]