Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins (opens in new tab)

Amazon CloudFront now supports WebSockets traffic through Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, enabling you to use CloudFront as the single entry point for real-time applications hosted entirely in private subnets. WebSockets support extends VPC origins to applications that require persistent, bidirectional connections between clients and servers, such as chat platforms, collaborative editing tools, live dashboards, and IoT device management systems. Previously, customers running real-time ap...