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Cloudfront Origin Security

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A customer using CloudFront to protect origin, wants to ensure traffic can only arrive from their CloudFront distribution. They have configured a security group IP allow list based on ip-ranges.json, along with custom headers to validate requests.

Customer has raised the concern that a bad actor can easily discover the origin-secret UUID and duplicate the configuration. They are seeking a method to further secure the shared secret, and protect it from attackers.

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Networking & Content Delivery
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Amazon CloudFront
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English

asked 7 years ago654 views

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Hello, check this blog where i explain how to use Lambda@Edge to sign requests to the origin:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/serving-private-content-using-amazon-cloudfront-aws-lambdaedge/

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answered 7 years ago

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