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Amazon Web Services Adds HTTPS Support for CloudFront Content Delivery Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced that its Amazon

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced that its Amazon CloudFront content delivery network now supports the ability to deliver content over HTTPS connections.

This is a key update for the service which will now enable customers to serve secure, encrypted content from the CloudFront content delivery network on sensitive transactional pages and other secure sessions.

Enabling all content on a page to be delivered via HTTPS will help avoid security warnings that some browsers present when viewing a mix of HTTP and HTTPS content.

Amazon said that since the company launched CloudFront, HTTPS support has been one of the most requested features by customers.

For CloudFront customers, making the switch to HTTPS is easy. All that needs to be done is update any links calling content from cloudfront.net links to use the “https://” protocol instead of “http://” and Amazon CloudFront will serve the content using HTTPS.

For customers that want to require all content to be served via HTTPS, they can configure the service to require HTTPS for all requests and not permit any requests made over the regular HTTP protocol.

For HTTPS requests, Amazon CloudFront will also use HTTPS to retrieve objects from Amazon S3 (AWS Cloud Storage), ensuring all objects are encrypted whenever transmitted.

Amazon AWS also expanded its East Coast capacity for CloudFront, adding a new edge location in New York City to improve performance for users requesting content from New York and the northeast.

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