AWS Edge Services Immersion Day
A safeINIT-hosted AWS Immersion Day on the AWS edge stack: CloudFront, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield Advanced for delivery, protection, and DDoS resilience.
About this talk
Delivery, protection, and DDoS resilience at the AWS edge
An AWS Immersion Day on the AWS edge stack: how CloudFront, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield Advanced fit together to deliver content fast, filter malicious traffic, and absorb DDoS at scale. The session walks through each service's role and the operational responsibilities that come with running them in production.
The framing is practical. Where each service ends and the next begins, what to instrument, and how to think about cost and configuration when traffic patterns change.
Key takeaways
A working framework for the AWS edge in front of production workloads.
CloudFront
- Distribution model and origin patterns
- Cache behaviors, TTLs, and invalidations
- Lambda@Edge and CloudFront Functions
WAF and Shield Advanced
- Managed rules vs custom rules in AWS WAF
- Rate limiting and bot control
- Shield Advanced: protection scope, response team, and cost protection
Bring this kind of work to your AWS environment.
If something here lined up with what you're building, the next step is a working call with the team that delivered it.