AWS just made life easier for SaaS providers, web platforms, and multi-brand companies with the release of Cloud Front SaaS Manager—a game-changing feature for managing content delivery across many websites at scale.
If you're tired of duplicating configurations, wrangling TLS certificates, and dealing with the complexity of multi-site delivery, this one’s for you. 👇
🧩 What Is Cloud Front SaaS Manager?
Cloud Front SaaS Manager is a new capability that lets you centrally manage content delivery, security, and certificates for multiple websites—all under one unified setup.
It’s ideal for:
- SaaS platforms with custom domains per customer (e.g.,customer1.yoursaas.com)
- CMS or web builders (like Wix or Shopify-style platforms)
- Companies with multiple branded websites
🤯 The Old Way (Before SaaS Manager)
Let’s say you run a web platform that hosts sites for small businesses. You might have sites like:
site1.myplatform.com
site2.myplatform.com
site3.myplatform.com
To deliver each site securely via Cloud Front, you’d typically:
- Create individual Cloud Front distributions
- Manage TLS certificates manually
- Set up security rules, cache policies, logging, etc.
- Repeat for each new customer/site 😵
This doesn't scale well as your platform grows.
✅ The New Way (With CloudFront SaaS Manager)
Cloud Front SaaS Manager brings a centralized, reusable configuration model so you can:
- 🔁 Define shared configurations once (caching, TLS, security, logging)
- 🚀 Automatically apply them across multiple sites
- 🔒 Manage TLS certificates effortlessly using integrated AWS Certificate Manager
- 📊 Gain visibility into all site delivery from a single pane
🧠 Think of it like:
“A Cloud Front blueprint you apply to as many sites as needed—with best practices built in.”
💡 Example Use Case
Let’s say you onboard a new customer who wants their site at myclient.yoursaas.com.
With Cloud Front SaaS Manager:
- Register the domain (or subdomain) in your SaaS Manager config.
- The tool automatically:
1. Provisions and attaches a TLS certificate
2. Applies your default Cloud Front policies
3. Links to your monitoring, logging, and DDoS protection
- Done. You never had to touch manual Cloud Front setup. ⚡
🔐 Security & Performance Built In
- Integrated with AWS Shield and AWS WAF
- Automated TLS issuance & renewal
- Follows CDN performance best practices by default
- Cross-account support for growing org
🛠️ Why This Matters
📎 Final Thoughts
Cloud Front SaaS Manager simplifies the hardest parts of running a SaaS platform at scale:
- No more copy-pasting config across dozens or hundreds of sites
- No more managing individual certificates
- No more slow on boarding
Whether you’re running 10 sites or 10,000, this tool is built to scale with you.
👉 Check the official announcement from AWS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/reduce-your-operational-overhead-today-with-amazon-cloudfront-saas-manager/