February AWS Columbus: CloudFront Deep Dive and its Hidden Features - VIRTUAL

CloudFront Deep Dive and its hidden features. CloudFront is AWS's content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates the global delivery of your websites. CloudFront is capable of caching content at over 750+ edge locations, logging, SSL termination, reducing latency, and uses the AWS backbone network to provide fast transfer speeds with AWS hosted infrastructure. It can include custom made transformations within the network using CloudFront Functions and is capable of routing traffic to different applications either by code or by path patterns. It is highly secure, integrated with AWS WAF and provides built-in DDoS protection. CloudFront now has Flat-rate pricing options including a free tier.

Discussion topics include:

• What is CloudFront
• Where you should use CloudFront
• Paths and how they can be routed to separate applications
• CORS and technique to remove that complication out of your life for good
• Policies: Cache, Request, and Response policies explained
• Caching Deep Dive - TTL and Cache Control headers explained
• New Flat-Rate pricing and examples where it makes sense
• Hidden Feature: CloudFront Functions / Lambda@Edge
• Hidden Feature: Built-in DDOS protection and WAF options
• Hidden Feature: Caching with CloudFront functions
• Questions you may have about CloudFront

About Speaker: Angelo is an AWS Columbus User Group leader, AWS Community Builder, and Certified Solutions Architect - Associate who has been developing solutions on AWS since 2007. He has experience with many CDN services including CloudFront, Akamai, CDNetworks and CloudFlare. Angelo recently developed a new WordPress plugin called FrontPup to allow a WordPress site to take full advantage of the features of CloudFront including caching and CloudFront Cache-Control headers.

AWS COLUMBUS MEETUP
The February AWS Columbus meetup will be virtual to avoid potential bad weather. March-December we will be back to in-person meetups!

Note: The virtual event information will be made available 24 hours before the session starts. Zoom link to be published February 16th on meetup.com, you must be registered for this meetup to see the link.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS
We are now using Sessionize to manage speaker submissions.
Learn more: https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/

THANK YOU 2025 SPONSORS Leading EDJE, VEEAM, Franklin University, Branch Insurance, and AWS. Your participation is greatly appreciated!!!

DIRECTIONS
This is a virtual meetup. The Zoom link to be published the day before the scheduled meetup on this page. You must be registered for this meetup to see the link.

Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab for a future meetup?
Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: [angelo@mandato.com](mailto:angelo@mandato.com)