Network Programming in .NET

Typically, CloudFront is used to serve your own website, so that it can leverage AWS’s CDN, and various edge servers in many countries, so that data is not transferred accross the world with every HTTP request.

But, you can also use it as a proxy, by pointing CloudFront at someone else’s website. This means that when you visit the CloudFront URL, the request to the third party website will come from AWS rather than from your local machine.

It’s not as anonymous as a good proxy, since there are various headers that would undoubtedly expose you, based on the request made to HTTPBIN below;

{
  "args": {}, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9", 
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br", 
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9", 
    "Dnt": "1", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "Sec-Ch-Ua": "\"Google Chrome\";v=\"107\", \"Chromium\";v=\"107\", \"Not=A?Brand\";v=\"24\"", 
    "Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile": "?0", 
    "Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform": "\"Windows\"", 
    "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "document", 
    "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate", 
    "Sec-Fetch-Site": "none", 
    "Sec-Fetch-User": "?1", 
    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1", 
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", 
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-636908d7-xxxxxxxx"
  }, 
  "origin": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", 
  "url": "https://httpbin.org/get"
}

Here X-Amzn-Trace-Id could probably be tied to you.