In today’s digital landscape, content delivery and edge security go hand in hand. CloudFront Security: Attack and Defense from Edge to Origin is a comprehensive, hands-on course designed to help security professionals, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects understand and secure Amazon CloudFront deployments. This course dives deep into the inner workings of CloudFront, offering both foundational knowledge and advanced attack-defense scenarios that reflect real-world threats and mitigation strategies.
The course begins with an introduction to CloudFront’s architecture, including how edge locations, regional caches, and origin servers collaborate to deliver low-latency, high-availability content. We then explore the core security features offered by CloudFront—such as HTTPS enforcement, field-level encryption, origin access identities and controls, and signed URLs—while reinforcing these concepts through practical labs and challenges.
A key focus of the course is on identifying and responding to common attack vectors targeting CloudFront endpoints and origin configurations. Learners will simulate attacks like cache poisoning, abuse of HTTP methods, unauthorized origin access, and S3 bucket takeovers. Through guided labs, they will learn how to detect, defend, and harden CloudFront distributions against these threats using built-in AWS features and custom defenses.
We also take a deep dive into AWS WAF integration, demonstrating how to configure security rules, enable DDoS protection, enforce security headers, and build dynamic defenses against web application attacks. Each concept is paired with real-world labs—offensive and defensive—helping learners build a practical mindset around edge security.
The final modules focus on operationalizing CloudFront security with logging, monitoring, cost optimization, and best practices. By the end of the course, participants will be well-equipped to secure content delivery pipelines from the edge to the origin, leveraging CloudFront’s capabilities as a secure, scalable defense layer in modern cloud-native architectures.
Whether you're looking to deepen your AWS security skills or understand how attackers think at the edge, this course provides a unique and thorough perspective—complete with labs, challenges, and actionable insights.
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