Monday 27th January 2025
We were excited to hear about a new way of connecting the CloudFront CDN directly to servers within a VPC, announced by AWS just before Re:Invent 2024. This innovative solution, called “CloudFront VPC Origins,” promises to offer significant improvements in security, efficiency. It will make it easier for our clients to securely deliver web content.
Key Features and Benefits:
1. Direct Connection: Amazon CloudFront can now connect directly to an Application Load Balancer (ALB) within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), whether in a public or private subnet.
2. Enhanced Security: This feature eliminates the need to expose resources to the public internet, reducing the attack surface and centralising security management through CloudFront.
3. Simplified Configuration: The new setup reduces the complexity of managing routing rules, security groups, and Network Access Control Lists (NACLs).
4. Seamless Integration: CloudFront VPC Origins works intuitively with Amazon’s Block Public Access (BPA) features, simplifying implementation.
5. Web Application Firewall (WAF) Integration: Easily incorporate AWS WAF into your CloudFront distribution for comprehensive traffic filtering.
6. Performance Improvements: Requests are efficiently routed through the AWS backbone, minimising latency and optimising connectivity.
7. Cost-Effective: Potential for significant savings on data transfer costs.
This development is particularly beneficial for our clients in highly regulated industries, such as Financial Services, where stringent security measures are paramount. By channelling all traffic through CloudFront and WAF, security teams can maintain tighter control over a smaller attack surface.
Compared to previous solutions, CloudFront VPC Origins offers a more robust, low-maintenance, and simplified approach to secure content delivery. It eliminates the need for public-facing resources and complex security group configurations, resulting in a more streamlined and error-resistant setup.
Our team at Bytes AWS is already assisting clients in migrating to CloudFront VPC Origins. We’re excited about the potential this feature holds for enhancing security, improving performance, and simplifying infrastructure management.
If you’re interested in learning more about how CloudFront VPC Origins can benefit your organisation, or if you’d like assistance in implementing this new feature, please don’t hesitate to contact our team. We’re here to help you leverage the latest AWS innovations to optimise your cloud infrastructure.
Contact the team at [email protected] for more information!
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