Amazon CloudFront now supports gRPC calls, allowing you to leverage its global content delivery network (CDN) to reduce latency, secure traffic at the edge, and benefit from DDoS protection.
Deploying CloudFront in front of your gRPC API endpoints enables reduced latency between client applications and your API. Edge locations provide TLS termination and optional caching, while requests are transferred through AWS's low-latency, high-bandwidth private network.
Your applications also gain enhanced security with traffic encryption, HTTP header validation via AWS WAF, and AWS Shield Standard DDoS protection.
The blog's demo effectively illustrates setting up CloudFront with gRPC, including using AWS Copilot for deploying a gRPC application on Amazon ECS. It highlights enabling HTTP/2 and the HTTP POST method, and configuring CloudFront to detect and forward gRPC traffic.
Overall, gRPC support on CloudFront is a significant advancement for gRPC developers, enabling them to harness CDN benefits for improved API performance and security. I'm eager to see how developers utilize this new capability.
