Securing CDN services

Each cloud provider has its own implementation of a CDN service – that is, a service for distributing content closer to the customer throughout the entire world.

A CDN caches content (such as images, videos, or static web pages) in multiple locations around the world, allowing customers to receive the content quickly from a location close to the customer.

CDNs also serve as an extra defense mechanism against DDoS attacks by being one of the first services that serves a customer's request, even before the request reaches the servers or applications.

Securing Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is the AWS managed CDN service.

Best practices for securing Amazon CloudFront

The following are some of the best practices to follow:

• Restrict access to origin servers (where your original content is stored) from CDN segments only (allow traffic only from the CDN segments towards servers or services that store content).
• Share content...