Tag: Amazon CloudFront

As introduced in Part 1 of this series, implementing secure file sharing solutions in AWS requires a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s needs and constraints. Before selecting a specific solution, organizations must evaluate five fundamental areas: access patterns and scale, technical requirements, security and compliance, operational requirements, and business constraints. These areas cover everything from […]

Securely share sensitive data with time-limited, nonce-enhanced presigned URLs that prevent replay attacks, minimizing exposure risks through granular access controls and rigorous monitoring.

Note: This post was first published April 21, 2016. The updated version aligns with the latest version of AWS WAF (AWS WAF v2) and includes screenshots that reflect the changes in the AWS console experience. AWS WAF Classic has been deprecated and will be end-of-life (EOL) in September 2025. This update describes how to use […]

For many network security operators, protecting application uptime can be a time-consuming challenge of baselining network traffic, investigating suspicious senders, and determining how best to mitigate risks. Simplifying this process and understanding network security posture at all times is the goal of most IT organizations that are trying to scale their applications without also needing […]

In this post, I will show you how to apply security at multiple layers of a web application hosted on AWS. Apply security at all layers is a design principle of the Security pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. It encourages you to apply security at the network edge, virtual private cloud (VPC), load balancer, […]

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is our top priority. Security is deeply embedded into our culture, processes, and systems; it permeates everything we do. What does this mean for you? We believe customers can benefit from learning more about what AWS is doing to prevent and mitigate customer-impacting security events. Since late August 2023, […]

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers build new applications, APIs have been key to driving the adoption of these offerings. APIs simplify client integration and provide for efficient operations and management of applications by offering standard contracts for data exchange. APIs are also the front door to hosted applications that need to be effectively secured, […]

July 30, 2025: AWS rolled out the Traffic Overview dashboard, which delivers near-real-time CloudWatch metrics summaries for AWS WAF. This new dashboard includes comprehensive monitoring of various metrics such as total requests, blocked requests, bot categories, CAPTCHA solve rates, and top 10 matched rules. Additionally, in January 2025, AWS launched the Top Insights section, specifically […]

April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer workflows require ingesting sensitive and regulated data such as Payments Card Industry (PCI) data, personally identifiable information (PII), and protected health information (PHI). In this post, I’ll show you a method designed to protect sensitive […]

Whether your web applications provide static or dynamic content, you can improve their performance, availability, and security by using Amazon CloudFront as your content delivery network (CDN). CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your web content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. CloudFront ensures that end-user requests […]