AWS now offers flat-rate pricing plans for its CloudFront service, eliminating overage charges regardless of traffic spikes. These plans include essential features like CDN, DDoS protection, and analytics, available in various tiers to suit different needs. Users can choose from a free tier up to premium options, making it easier to budget for internet-facing applications.

This article provides a step-by-step guide for setting up mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication with Amazon CloudFront using an open-source serverless Certificate Authority (CA). It covers initial CloudFront setup, CA deployment, and testing mTLS access, highlighting security practices and configuration details.

Amazon CloudFront has enhanced its IPv6 capabilities by introducing support for IPv6 origins, allowing for end-to-end IPv6 content delivery to origin servers. This update helps customers meet their IPv6 adoption requirements and improves network performance while alleviating concerns about IPv4 address exhaustion. Users can configure their origins to use IPv4-only, IPv6-only, or dual-stack connectivity in all supported AWS Commercial Regions, except for Amazon S3 and VPC origins.