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AWS AmazonCloudFront medium security documentation change

Service: AmazonCloudFront · 2025-05-01 · Security-related medium

File: AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-working-with.md

Summary

Added documentation for CloudFront multi-tenant distributions, including security requirements (AWS WAF V2 ACLs) and format limitations

Security assessment

Explicitly states that multi-tenant distributions only support AWS WAF V2 web ACLs, which indicates an enforcement of modern security controls. WAF V2 provides improved security features over previous versions, making this a security-related configuration requirement.

Diff

diff --git a/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-working-with.md b/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-working-with.md
index a9e7853db..075885f87 100644
--- a//AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-working-with.md
+++ b//AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-working-with.md
@@ -9 +9,3 @@ You create an Amazon CloudFront distribution to tell CloudFront from where you w
-Choose from the following configuration settings: 
+You can create CloudFront multi-tenant distributions with settings that can be reused across multiple distribution tenants. With a multi-tenant distribution, you can have CloudFront configure your distribution settings for you, based on your content origin type. For more details about the preconfigured settings, see [CloudFront multi-tenant distribution reference](./template-preconfigured-origin-settings.html). You can also create distributions with settings that can be reused across multiple distribution tenants. For more information, see [Understand how multi-tenant distributions work](./distribution-config-options.html). Alternatively, you can use a standard distribution and manually configure your own distribution settings.
+
+The following settings can be configured:
@@ -15 +17 @@ Choose from the following configuration settings:
-  * **Security** —Whether you want to enable AWS WAF protection and require users to use HTTPS to access your content.
+  * **Security** —Whether you want to enable AWS WAF protection and require users to use HTTPS to access your content. For multi-tenant distributions, only AWS WAF V2 web access control lists (ACLs) are supported.
@@ -36 +38 @@ You can use distributions to serve the following content over HTTP or HTTPS:
-  * Video on demand in different formats, such as Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Microsoft Smooth Streaming. For more information, see [Deliver video on demand with CloudFront](./on-demand-video.html).
+  * Video on demand in different formats, such as Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Microsoft Smooth Streaming. (For multi-tenant distributions, Smooth Streaming is not supported.) For more information, see [Deliver video on demand with CloudFront](./on-demand-video.html).
@@ -46,0 +49,2 @@ The following topics provide more details about CloudFront distributions and how
+  * [Understand how multi-tenant distributions work](./distribution-config-options.html)
+
@@ -82 +86 @@ Get started with a secure static website
-Create a distribution
+Understand how multi-tenant distributions work