Category AWS CloudFront

AWS, AWS CloudFront, AWS S3

Do you need AWS WAF when using Amazon CloudFront to serve a static website fronted on S3?

TL;DR: Absolutely! Using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) can be very advantageous, even when serving a static website through Amazon CloudFront. Here’s why: How to implement it: Monitor your WAF rules for issues: AWS Advanced DDoS Protection:

Brenden Cruikshank
September 12, 2024

AWS, AWS CloudFront

How to set Cache-Control Header in CloudFront?

How to set Cache-Control Header in CloudFront? You can add a Cache-Control header to your CloudFront instance without the use of functions.

Brenden Cruikshank
September 12, 2024

AWS, AWS CloudFront, AWS S3

New S3 bucket with static website hosting is redirecting to origin

Note from the year 2025: This is not really recommended anymore, its better to use CloudFront origin access control (OAC) and keep your buckets private. My CloudFront distribution was doing a 307 redirect to my S3 regional endpoint and the…

Brenden Cruikshank
November 21, 2020