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AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C03 · Domain 3: Infrastructure Security

CloudFront security: origin access control, signed URLs and signed cookies, security headers and field-level encryption

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Last reviewed September 29, 2026 · Leer en español

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network, but it is also a security layer: it terminates TLS at the edge, absorbs DDoS traffic, runs WAF, and controls who can reach your content and origins.

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