Tag: Networking & Content Delivery

In continuation with our series on Handling Redirects@Edge, in this blog post, we will explore how you can leverage HAQM CloudFront, Lambda@Edge and HAQM Simple Storage Service (S3) to offload the origin from URL redirection with more advanced capabilities. As part of this solution, we offer a simple custom-built user interface to define and manage […]

A HTTP URL redirect is a webserver function that redirects a user to a different URL from the one they originally requested. Redirections are useful when you want a short easy to remember URL which when accessed redirects you to the actual landing page. URL shortener services are a good example of this use case. […]

A public IP address is a big part of what is used to identify you on the public internet. In cases such as migration, whitelisting, or even IP address reputation, it can be important to you as the application owner, that your application’s IP address remains the same, or in the case of a migration, […]

For online retailers, the annual holiday season, special sales and new product launches are all exciting events that typically drive a rapid increase in site traffic. With HAQM CloudFront and Lambda@Edge, you can now build a Flash Crowd Management workflow that lets you control what proportion of incoming shopper traffic is allowed to access your backend application, while directing the remaining shoppers to a temporary waiting room- an alternate site where you can provide them a branded experience while they await their turn to access the application.

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.

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.

Do you have lots of images that need to be modified before delivery? No problem with HAQM CloudFront and Lambda@Edge. Read more on how you can use our services to modify image dimensions, apply watermarks, or optimize formats based on browser support all on the fly. Optimizing your image delivery can lead to a better experience for your users while also reducing your bandwidth usage.

Authorization, the function of specifying access rights to resources is often required to help protect restricted content in web applications. This post will show you how to implement a serverless authorization of viewers using HAQM CloudFront, Lambda@Edge and HAQM Cognito without modifying your origin resources.

In this blog post, we will provide an overview of the performance, security, and cost benefits you get when using CloudFront to serve dynamic and/or static assets from HAQM EC2. We will also walk through the exercise of configuring CloudFront for HAQM EC2 origins.