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The communication between your AWS CloudFront distributions and their custom origins should be encrypted using HTTPS in order to secure the delivery of your web content.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

HIPAA, GDPR, AWSWAF

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

Sure, here are the step-by-step instructions to remediate the misconfiguration “CloudFront Distributions Should Use HTTPS For Secure Delivery of Web Content” in AWS using the AWS Console:

  1. Login to the AWS Management Console.
  2. Navigate to the CloudFront console.
  3. Select the distribution(s) that you want to modify.
  4. Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.
  5. In the “General” tab, under the “Viewer Protocol Policy” section, select “Redirect HTTP to HTTPS”.
  6. Click on the “Yes, Edit” button to save the changes.
  7. Wait for the changes to propagate.

Once the changes have propagated, your CloudFront distribution(s) will only allow HTTPS connections for secure delivery of web content.

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