Amazon CloudFront | HTTP and HTTP 2

Question 1

Is Amazon CloudFront HIPAA eligible?

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Answer 1

Yes, AWS has expanded its HIPAA compliance program to include Amazon CloudFront as a HIPAA eligible service. If you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS, you can use Amazon CloudFront to accelerate the delivery of protected health information (PHI). For more information, see HIPAA Compliance and our developer’s guide.

Question 2

What types of HTTP requests are supported by Amazon CloudFront?

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Answer 2

Amazon CloudFront currently supports GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE and OPTIONS requests.

Question 3

Does Amazon CloudFront cache POST responses?

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Answer 3

Amazon CloudFront does not cache the responses to POST, PUT, DELETE, and PATCH requests – these requests are proxied back to the origin server. You may enable caching for the responses to OPTIONS requests.

Question 4

How do I use HTTP/2?

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Answer 4

If you have an existing Amazon CloudFront distribution, you can turn on HTTP/2 using the API or the Management Console. In the Console, go to the “Distribution Configuration” page and navigate to the section “Supported HTTP Versions.” There, you can select “HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, or HTTP/1.0”. HTTP/2 is automatically enabled for all new CloudFront distributions.

Question 5

What if my origin does not support HTTP/2?

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Answer 5

Amazon CloudFront currently supports HTTP/2 for delivering content to your viewers’ clients and browsers. For communication between the edge location and your origin servers, Amazon CloudFront will continue to use HTTP/1.1.