Amazon CloudFront now supports CBOR Web Tokens and Common Access Tokens
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This article announces that Amazon CloudFront now supports CBOR Web Tokens (CWT) and Common Access Tokens (CAT) for secure token-based authentication at edge locations.
- CWT provides compact binary alternative to JWT using CBOR encoding
- CAT extends CWT with fine-grained access control including URL patterns and IP restrictions
- Both use COSE for enhanced security with sub-millisecond execution times
- Ideal for high-performance applications like live video streaming and IoT
- Enables consistent authentication across multi-CDN deployments
- Supports token validation, generation, and refresh within CloudFront Functions
- Available at no additional charge in all CloudFront edge locations
CloudFront now offers lightweight, standardized token-based authentication at the edge, simplifying security management for performance-critical applications.
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