CloudFront distribution must enforce HTTPS viewer protocol
High
AWS
General
aws-cloudfront-distribution-cloudfront-distributio
Applies to
AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
What CGPulse checks
A resource passes this rule when viewerProtocolPolicy must be one of ["redirect-to-https","https-only"]. Anything else is reported as a finding with the evaluated property value attached as evidence.
How to fix it
Configure HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect to encrypt all user traffic in transit. In AWS Console: ELB/CloudFront > Listeners > add HTTP redirect rule to HTTPS. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-listeners.html
Terraform
resource "aws_cloudfront_distribution" "{name}" {
default_cache_behavior {
viewer_protocol_policy = "redirect-to-https"
}
}
Compliance frameworks
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