AWS Account Should Use CloudFront CDN Service

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AWS CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) service should be used within your AWS account to secure and accelerate the delivery of your websites, media files or static resources.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

AWSWAF

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

Using Console

Using CLI

To remediate the misconfiguration in AWS that the account should use CloudFront CDN service, you can follow the below steps using AWS CLI:

Open the AWS CLI on your local machine.
Run the following command to create a new CloudFront distribution:

aws cloudfront create-distribution --distribution-config file://distribution-config.json

Note: Replace distribution-config.json with the path to your CloudFront distribution configuration file.

Update the DNS records for your domain to point to the CloudFront distribution.
Wait for the DNS changes to propagate.
Verify that your website is now being served through CloudFront by visiting your website and checking the response headers for the X-Cache header. If the header is present, it means that your website is being served through CloudFront.

By following these steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration that your AWS account should use CloudFront CDN service.

Using Python

To remediate the misconfiguration in AWS where the account should use CloudFront CDN service, you can use the following steps in Python:

Import the necessary AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) library.

import boto3

Create a CloudFront client object using the boto3.client() method.

cloudfront = boto3.client('cloudfront')

Create a new CloudFront distribution using the create_distribution() method.

response = cloudfront.create_distribution(
    DistributionConfig={
        'CallerReference': 'unique-id', # Specify a unique identifier for the distribution
        'DefaultRootObject': 'index.html', # Specify the default root object
        'Origins': {
            'Quantity': 1,
            'Items': [
                {
                    'Id': 'my-bucket-origin', # Specify a unique identifier for the origin
                    'DomainName': 'my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com', # Specify the S3 bucket domain name
                    'S3OriginConfig': {
                        'OriginAccessIdentity': '' # Specify the origin access identity
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        'DefaultCacheBehavior': {
            'TargetOriginId': 'my-bucket-origin', # Specify the origin identifier
            'ForwardedValues': {
                'QueryString': False, # Specify whether to forward query strings
                'Cookies': {
                    'Forward': 'none' # Specify whether to forward cookies
                }
            },
            'ViewerProtocolPolicy': 'redirect-to-https', # Specify the viewer protocol policy
            'MinTTL': 0 # Specify the minimum TTL
        },
        'Comment': 'My CloudFront distribution', # Specify a comment for the distribution
        'Enabled': True # Specify whether the distribution is enabled
    }
)

Wait for the distribution to be deployed using the wait_until() method.

cloudfront.get_waiter('distribution_deployed').wait(
    Id=response['Distribution']['Id'],
    WaiterConfig={
        'Delay': 30,
        'MaxAttempts': 50
    }
)

Update the DNS records to point to the CloudFront distribution using Route 53 or other DNS service.

# Example using Route 53
route53 = boto3.client('route53')

response = route53.change_resource_record_sets(
    HostedZoneId='Z1234567890123', # Specify the hosted zone ID
    ChangeBatch={
        'Changes': [
            {
                'Action': 'UPSERT',
                'ResourceRecordSet': {
                    'Name': 'example.com', # Specify the domain name
                    'Type': 'A',
                    'AliasTarget': {
                        'HostedZoneId': 'Z2FDTNDATAQYW2', # Specify the CloudFront hosted zone ID
                        'DNSName': 'd1234567890123.cloudfront.net', # Specify the CloudFront DNS name
                        'EvaluateTargetHealth': False
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
    }
)

By following these steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration in AWS where the account should use CloudFront CDN service using Python.

Additional Reading:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/

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AWS Account Should Use CloudFront CDN Service

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AWS Introduction

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AWS Misconfigurations

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​Risk Level

​Address

​Compliance Standards

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​Remediation

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Compliance Standards

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

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