[Tea418]

Fully agree here: I don’t expect anything else but reliable and performant HTTP caching from a CDN like CloudFront.

Request manipulation is not the duty of a cache - even though other CDN providers mix request manipulation functionality with caching. In my opinion, they don’t need to be in the same product.

If you still need request manipulation, because you don’t control the origin or you don’t want to introduce another service between CloudFront and the origin, you would use CloudFront Functions, which is cheaper than Lambda@Edge and easy to set up.

[herpderperator]

CloudFront Distributions cannot pass the request to CloudFront Functions before sending to the origin. In other words, they cannot be used to modify origin request/responses. They can only modify the viewer request/responses. [0]

Only Lambda@Edge can help the scenario which I provided, which is also AWS's recommended solution. [1]

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/serving-content-us...