Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTP status and response generation using CloudFront Functions
Starting today, you can use CloudFront Functions to further customize responses to viewers, including changing the HTTP status code and replacing the HTTP body of the response. CloudFront Functions is a serverless edge computing feature on CloudFront built for lightweight HTTP transformations that runs in the 450+ CloudFront edge locations globally.
Starting today, you can use CloudFront Functions to further customize responses to viewers, including changing the HTTP status code and replacing the HTTP body of the response. CloudFront Functions is a serverless edge computing feature on CloudFront built for lightweight HTTP transformations that runs in the 450+ CloudFront edge locations globally.
Previously, CloudFront Functions allowed transforming the HTTP request and response attributes such as headers and cookies. With this launch, when CloudFront receives an HTTP response from your origin server or the cache, you can modify the HTTP response to override the HTTP status code and HTTP body. For example, if you want to evaluate the headers returned from your origin to determine whether to block a request, you can change the HTTP status code to 403 and drop the HTTP body in the response. You can also use this capability to generate the HTTP body for each request, for example, you can evaluate a request and respond back to viewers with a customized webpage.
For more information, refer to the CloudFront Developer Guide. There is no additional fee to use this feature. To get started with CloudFront, please visit the CloudFront Getting Started.