Supported protocols and ciphers between viewers and CloudFront (original) (raw)

When you require HTTPS between viewers and your CloudFront distribution, you must choose a security policy, which determines the following settings:

• The minimum SSL/TLS protocol that CloudFront uses to communicate with viewers.
• The ciphers that CloudFront can use to encrypt the communication with viewers.

To choose a security policy, specify the applicable value for Security policy (minimum SSL/TLS version). The following table lists the protocols and ciphers that CloudFront can use for each security policy.

A viewer must support at least one of the supported ciphers to establish an HTTPS connection with CloudFront. CloudFront chooses a cipher in the listed order from among the ciphers that the viewer supports. See also OpenSSL, s2n, and RFC cipher names.

OpenSSL, s2n, and RFC cipher names

OpenSSL and s2n use different names for ciphers than the TLS standards use (RFC 2246, RFC 4346, RFC 5246, and RFC 8446). The following table maps the OpenSSL and s2n names to the RFC name for each cipher.

For ciphers with elliptic curve key exchange algorithms, CloudFront supports the following elliptic curves:

• prime256v1
• X25519
• secp384r1

For more information about certificate requirements for CloudFront, see Requirements for using SSL/TLS certificates with CloudFront.

Supported signature schemes between viewers and CloudFront

CloudFront supports the following signature schemes for connections between viewers and CloudFront.