Networking & Content Delivery
Tag: Security
How to use AWS PrivateLink to secure and scale web filtering using explicit proxy
Many customers use web filtering proxy solutions to monitor and control web traffic from their VPCs. When you have many accounts and VPCs, you will need to deploy multiple stacks of these solutions. This increases the complexity and overhead of managing these solutions. By centralizing the web filtering proxy service, you can easily and securely […]
CloudFront now Supports ECDSA Certificates for HTTPS Connections to Origins
See how you can now use Amazon 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.
Authorization@Edge – How to Use Lambda@Edge and JSON Web Tokens to Enhance Web Application Security
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 Amazon CloudFront, Lambda@Edge and Amazon Cognito without modifying your origin resources.
Adding HTTP Security Headers Using Lambda@Edge and Amazon CloudFront
Adding security response headers is often achievable by modifications to your application configuration. In this blog we will focus on how to achieve the same result when you have an application that can’t be modified at the origin (e.g., a web site hosted in Amazon S3).