AWS has announced CloudFront SaaS Manager, a new Amazon CloudFront feature designed to efficiently manage content delivery across multiple websites for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, web development platforms, and companies with multiple brands/websites. The new offering aims at providing a unified experience, alleviating the operational burden of managing multiple websites at scale, including TLS certificate management, DDoS protection, and observability.
“Today, I’m happy to announce the general availability of Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager, a new feature that helps software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, web development platform providers, and companies with multiple brands and websites efficiently manage delivery across multiple domains. Customers already use CloudFront to securely deliver content with low latency and high transfer speeds. CloudFront SaaS Manager addresses a critical challenge these organizations face: managing tenant websites at scale, each requiring TLS certificates, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, and performance monitoring,” said Veliswa Boya, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS in a blogpost.
The solution introduces reusable configuration settings, eliminating redundant configurations and allowing customers to maintain consistent settings across their websites. This not only saves time but also reduces the potential for errors in configuration, said a statement from the company. With the new SaaS Manager, customers benefit from optimal CDN and security defaults, ensuring high performance and secure protections following AWS best practices.
Additionally, the offering can automate requesting, issuing, and associating TLS certificates with CloudFront through a simplified AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) integration. This addresses the growing complexity in certificate management, security policy enforcement, and cross-account synchronization that companies face as their customer base expands.
“In CloudFront, you can use multi-tenant SaaS deployments, a strategy where a single CloudFront distribution serves content for multiple distinct tenants (users or organizations). CloudFront SaaS Manager uses a new template-based distribution model called a multi-tenant distribution to serve content across multiple domains while sharing configuration and infrastructure. However, if supporting single websites or application, a standard distribution would be better or recommended,” added Boya.
