Content delivery networks

Amazon CloudFront announces dual-stack support for VPC origins

Amazon CloudFront now supports end-to-end IPv6 delivery to origins inside your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), with the new dual-stack VPC origins.

Amazon CloudFront now supports AWS Lambda Web Functions as an origin

Starting today, you can deliver web applications built on AWS Lambda Web Functions through CloudFront's global edge network.

Generally Available: Exceptions in WAF for Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door

Announcing the general availability of exceptions for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door.

Invalidate cached content instead of purging it

You can now invalidate cached content instead of purging it. Invalidation marks matching content as stale. On the next request, Cloudflare revalidates the content with your origin.

Purge now forces a cache miss for Cache Reserve content

Purge requests now force a cache miss for Cache Reserve content, regardless of purge type. Previously, purging by cache tag, hostname, prefix, or everything marked matching Cache Reserve content for revalidation.

Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront adds four new features

Today, AWS announced four new features for Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront (DIT), an AWS supported solution that helps customers transform images in response to their needs.

Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plans

Starting today, customers can subscribe and manage flat-rate pricing plans programmatically using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, CloudFormation, CDK, or the PricingPlanManager API.

Public Preview: Azure Front Door profile and route level WAF policies

Azure Front Door’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) now supports profile and route level WAF policy associations in public preview.

Configure Origin Range Requests with the Rulesets API

The Rulesets API now supports Origin Range Requests in Cache Rules. This setting lets Cloudflare fetch large files from your origin in cache-aligned byte ranges. Cloudflare may expand a client range and issue several single-range origin requests.

Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points

Starting today, customers can protect their origins using Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points (MRAP) by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions.

Global Front End is a unified offering that simplifies billing by consolidating pricing across networking products, including Cloud CDN, global external…

Global Front End is a unified offering that simplifies billing by consolidating pricing across networking products, including Cloud CDN, global external Application Load Balancer, Google Cloud Armor, and Service Extensions, into one solution to help deliver, scale, and secure…

Cloud CDN supports the targeted CDN-Cache-Control HTTP response header RFC 9213.

You can use this header to specify caching directives specifically for Cloud CDN edge caches without affecting browser-level caching.

Generally Available: Batch rule updates for Azure Front Door

Batch rule updates are now generally available for Azure Front Door Standard and Premium. This capability enables customers to add, update, delete, or reorder multiple rules in a rule set as a coordinated operation, ensuring that all changes are applied together or not applied…

Public Preview: Azure Front Door mutual TLS

Mutual TLS, also known as client certificate authentication, enables Azure Front Door to authenticate clients using X.509 certificates before requests reach an application.

Amazon CloudFront Functions now supports logging to CloudFront access logs

You can now write custom data directly into CloudFront access logs using a new helper method available from within CloudFront Functions. CloudFront Functions run lightweight JavaScript at the edge for tasks like URL rewrites, header manipulation, and request routing.

Public Preview: Azure Front Door edge actions

Announcing the public preview of Azure Front Door edge actions (serverless compute at the edge).

Public Preview: Exceptions in WAF for Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect your web applications from common threats and attacks. In some cases, WAF may block requests that are safe and expected for your application.

Cache multiple versions of a URL with Vary

Your origin can serve different responses for the same URL — different languages based on Accept-Language, or different formats based on Accept — by returning a Vary response header.

AWS WAF announces AI traffic monetization

Today, AWS WAF announced AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that lets you price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing your content and APIs.

BYPASS status now returned for uncacheable responses

Cloudflare now returns a BYPASS cache status whenever a response is not cacheable, instead of the previous mix of BYPASS and MISS that depended on why Cloudflare chose not to cache the response.