Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins
Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins. Published context: May 1, 2026. 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 ch The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...