Document history
The following table describes the important changes made to CloudFront documentation. For notification of updates, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.
Change | Description | Date |
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Updated tutorial for a basic distribution that uses an Amazon S3 origin with origin access control (OAC). | March 18, 2024 | |
Added code examples that show how to use CloudFront with an AWS software development kit (SDK). The examples are divided into code excerpts that show you how to call individual service functions and examples that show you how to accomplish a specific task by calling multiple functions within the same service. | February 16, 2024 | |
The | December 19, 2023 | |
Added JavaScript runtime 2.0 features for CloudFront Functions. | November 21, 2023 | |
Amazon CloudFront now supports CloudFront KeyValueStore. This feature is a secure, global, low-latency key value datastore that allows read access from within CloudFront Functions, enabling advanced customizable logic at the CloudFront edge locations. | November 21, 2023 | |
Lambda@Edge now supports Lambda functions with the Node.js 20 runtime. | November 15, 2023 | |
CloudFront creates a security dashboard when you create a distribution. Enable AWS WAF, manage geo restrictions, and view high-level data for requests, bots, and logs. | November 8, 2023 | |
CloudFront now supports query string sorting using CloudFront Functions | October 3, 2023 | |
Amazon CloudFront now displays AWS WAF security recommendations on the CloudFront console. | September 26, 2023 | |
CloudFront supports the | May 15, 2023 | |
A streamlined method for adding AWS WAF security protections to CloudFront distributions. | May 10, 2023 | |
Added note and links to address the default ACL setting for new S3 buckets. | April 11, 2023 | |
You can use an Amazon S3 Object Lambda Access Point alias as an origin for your distribution. | March 31, 2023 | |
You can use CloudFront Functions to update the viewer response status code and replace or remove the response body. | March 29, 2023 | |
You can now include wildcard configurations for ports in CORS access-control headers. | March 20, 2023 | |
Updated language and added link to the reorganized Amazon CloudFront controls in the AWS Security Hub User Guide. | March 9, 2023 | |
CloudFront now supports block lists ("all except") in origin request policies | Use block lists in origin request policies to include all query strings, HTTP headers, or cookies, except for the ones specified, in requests that CloudFront sends to the origin. | February 22, 2023 |
Use CloudFront's new managed origin request policy to include all headers
from the viewer request, except for the | February 22, 2023 | |
Lambda@Edge supports Lambda runtime management configurations set to Auto. | February 16, 2023 | |
Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM. | February 15, 2023 | |
You can now secure MediaStore origins by permitting access to only the designated CloudFront distributions. | February 9, 2023 | |
You can now add header order and header count to help identify the viewer based on the headers that it sends. | January 13, 2023 | |
Lambda@Edge now supports Lambda functions with the Node.js 18 runtime. | January 12, 2023 | |
You can now use a CloudFront response headers policy to remove headers that CloudFront received in the response from the origin. The specified headers are not included in the response that CloudFront sends to viewers. | January 3, 2023 | |
Added the | December 2, 2022 | |
Continuous deployment for safely testing configuration changes | You can now deploy changes to your CDN configuration by testing with a subset of production traffic. | November 18, 2022 |
You can now use the JA3 fingerprint to help determine whether the request comes from a known client. | November 16, 2022 | |
You can now use various wildcard configurations in some CORS access-control headers. | November 11, 2022 | |
Support for | October 3, 2022 | |
You can now secure Amazon S3 origins by permitting access to only the designated CloudFront distributions. | August 24, 2022 | |
You can now choose HTTP/3 for your CloudFront distribution. | August 15, 2022 | |
You can new view information about the SSL/TLS handshake used. | June 27, 2022 | |
Added the new | June 13, 2022 | |
You can now use the | May 23, 2022 | |
With Amazon CloudWatch, you can now monitor the number of times that a CloudFront Function was throttled in a given time period. | May 4, 2022 | |
If you build a serverless web application using Lambda functions with function URLs, you can now add CloudFront for an array of benefits. | April 6, 2022 | |
You can now enable the | March 30, 2022 | |
You can now limit the inbound HTTP and HTTPS traffic to your origins from only the IP addresses that belong to CloudFront’s origin-facing servers. | February 7, 2022 |
For earlier entries, see Updates before 2022.