CloudFront Function¶

With CloudFront Functions, you can write lightweight functions in JavaScript for high-scale, latency-sensitive CDN customizations. The CloudFront Functions runtime environment offers submillisecond startup times, scales immediately to handle millions of requests per second, and is highly secure. CloudFront Functions is a native feature of CloudFront, which means you can build, test, and deploy your code entirely within CloudFront.

Note

CloudFront Functions are at all like AWS Lambda functions, as they are JavaScript only and have no Lambda context.

CloudFront Function Diagram

Limits¶

JavaScript (ECMAScript 5.1 compliant)
Event sources - Viewer request pr viewer response
10,000,000 requests per second or more
Submillisecond duration
2 MB maximum memory
10 KB maximum size of a function
No network access
No file system access
No access to request body
Can access to geolocation and device data
Can build and test entirely within CloudFront
Function logging and metrics

Request¶

version - (String, required): The version field contains a string that specifies the version of the CloudFront Functions event object. The current version is 1.0.
context - (Object, required): The context object contains contextual information about the event. It includes the following fields:

distributionDomainName - The CloudFront domain name (for example, d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net) of the distribution that’s associated with the event.
distributionId - The ID of the distribution (for example, EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE) that’s associated with the event.
eventType - The event type, either viewer-request or viewer-response.
requestId - A string that uniquely identifies a CloudFront request (and its associated response).

viewer - (Object, required) The request object contains a representation of a viewer-to-CloudFront HTTP request. In the event object that’s passed to your function, the request object represents the actual request that CloudFront received from the viewer. The request object contains the following fields:

method - The HTTP method of the request.
uri - The URI of the request.
querystring - An object that represents the query string in the request.
headers - An object that represents the HTTP headers in the request.
cookies - An object that represents the cookies in the request (Cookie headers).

Event Structure

{
    "version": "1.0",
    "context": {
        <context object>
    },
    "viewer": {
        <viewer object>
    },
    "request": {
        <request object>
    },
    "response": {
        <response object>
    }
}

Getting the correlation id¶

JSON path to correlation id: context.requestId

Generating sample events¶

TODO

Response¶

The response object contains a representation of a CloudFront-to-viewer HTTP response. In the event object that’s passed to your function, the response object represents CloudFront’s actual response to a viewer request.

If your function code returns a response object, it must use this same structure.

The response object contains the following fields:

statusCode (Integer, required): The HTTP status code of the response. This value is an integer, not a string.
statusDescription (String): The HTTP status description of the response. If your function code generates a response, this field is optional.
headers (Object): An object that represents the HTTP headers in the response. Cookies are represented separately in the cookies object.
cookies (Object): An object that represents the cookies in the response (Set-Cookie headers).

Request Response Example¶

Note

The event object is the input to your function. Your function returns only the request or response object, not the complete event object.

The following example shows a complete event object.

{
  "version": "1.0",
  "context": {
    "distributionDomainName": "d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net",
    "distributionId": "EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE",
    "eventType": "viewer-response",
    "requestId": "EXAMPLEntjQpEXAMPLE_SG5Z-EXAMPLEPmPfEXAMPLEu3EqEXAMPLE=="
  },
  "viewer": {
    "ip": "198.51.100.11"
  },
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "uri": "/media/index.mpd",
    "querystring": {
      "ID": {
        "value": "42"
      },
      "Exp": {
        "value": "1619740800"
      },
      "TTL": {
        "value": "1440"
      },
      "NoValue": {
        "value": ""
      },
      "querymv": {
        "value": "val1",
        "multiValue": [
          {
            "value": "val1"
          },
          {
            "value": "val2,val3"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "headers": {
      "host": {
        "value": "video.example.com"
      },
      "user-agent": {
        "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0"
      },
      "accept": {
        "value": "application/json",
        "multiValue": [
          {
            "value": "application/json"
          },
          {
            "value": "application/xml"
          },
          {
            "value": "text/html"
          }
        ]
      },
      "accept-language": {
        "value": "en-GB,en;q=0.5"
      },
      "accept-encoding": {
        "value": "gzip, deflate, br"
      },
      "origin": {
        "value": "https://website.example.com"
      },
      "referer": {
        "value": "https://website.example.com/videos/12345678?action=play"
      },
      "cloudfront-viewer-country": {
        "value": "GB"
      }
    },
    "cookies": {
      "Cookie1": {
        "value": "value1"
      },
      "Cookie2": {
        "value": "value2"
      },
      "cookie_consent": {
        "value": "true"
      },
      "cookiemv": {
        "value": "value3",
        "multiValue": [
          {
            "value": "value3"
          },
          {
            "value": "value4"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "statusCode": 200,
    "statusDescription": "OK",
    "headers": {
      "date": {
        "value": "Mon, 04 Apr 2021 18:57:56 GMT"
      },
      "server": {
        "value": "gunicorn/19.9.0"
      },
      "access-control-allow-origin": {
        "value": "*"
      },
      "access-control-allow-credentials": {
        "value": "true"
      },
      "content-type": {
        "value": "application/json"
      },
      "content-length": {
        "value": "701"
      }
    },
    "cookies": {
      "ID": {
        "value": "id1234",
        "attributes": "Expires=Wed, 05 Apr 2021 07:28:00 GMT"
      },
      "Cookie1": {
        "value": "val1",
        "attributes": "Secure; Path=/; Domain=example.com; Expires=Wed, 05 Apr 2021 07:28:00 GMT",
        "multiValue": [
          {
            "value": "val1",
            "attributes": "Secure; Path=/; Domain=example.com; Expires=Wed, 05 Apr 2021 07:28:00 GMT"
          },
          {
            "value": "val2",
            "attributes": "Path=/cat; Domain=example.com; Expires=Wed, 10 Jan 2021 07:28:00 GMT"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Resources¶

More code examples

TIP: Rather use Amazon CloudFront response headers policies

You no longer need to configure your origins or use custom Lambda@Edge or CloudFront functions to insert these headers.

See Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headers

Code Examples¶

Add security headers to the response

function handler(event) {
    var response = event.response;
    var headers = response.headers;

    // Set HTTP security headers
    // Since JavaScript doesn't allow for hyphens in variable names, we use the dict["key"] notation 
    headers['strict-transport-security'] = { value: 'max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload'}; 
    headers['content-security-policy'] = { value: "default-src 'none'; img-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; style-src 'self'; object-src 'none'"}; 
    headers['x-content-type-options'] = { value: 'nosniff'}; 
    headers['x-frame-options'] = {value: 'DENY'}; 
    headers['x-xss-protection'] = {value: '1; mode=block'}; 

    // Return the response to viewers 
    return response;
}

Documentation¶

Last update: 2023-06-08