CloudFront Distributions

Amazon CloudFront distributions can serve content more efficiently and at lower cost when compression is properly configured. Many distributions serve compressible content (HTML, CSS, JS, JSON) without enabling compression.

Implementation Effort: Low - Estimated time: less than 30 minutes. Enable compression in cache behavior settings via console or API.

What We Detect

• Missing compression -- CloudFront distributions serving compressible content types without Gzip/Brotli compression enabled in their cache behaviors

Why It Matters

Enabling compression typically reduces data transfer by 60-80% for text-based content. Since CloudFront charges for data transferred out, compression directly reduces your bill while also improving end-user performance.

Recommendations

1. Enable "Compress Objects Automatically" in each cache behavior
2. Ensure your origin serves appropriate Content-Type headers so CloudFront knows what to compress
3. No application changes are required -- CloudFront handles compression at the edge

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