id: cloudfront-compress-object info: name: CloudFront Compress Objects Automatically author: DhiyaneshDK severity: low description: | Ensure that your Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) distributions are configured to automatically compress content for web requests that include "Accept-Encoding: gzip" in the request header, in order to increase the websites/web applications performance and reduce bandwidth costs. impact: | Disabling "Compress Objects Automatically" in CloudFront can lead to increased data transfer costs and slower page load times, negatively impacting user experience and performance. remediation: | Enable "Compress Objects Automatically" in CloudFront to reduce data transfer sizes, enhance loading speeds, and improve overall performance for end users. reference: - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity-staging/knowledge-base/aws/CloudFront/compress-objects-automatically.html - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/ServingCompressedFiles.html tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,cloudfront,aws-cloud-config variables: region: "us-west-2" flow: | code(1) for(let DistributionListItemsId of iterate(template.distributions)){ set("distribution", DistributionListItemsId) code(2) } self-contained: true code: - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws cloudfront list-distributions --output table --query 'DistributionList.Items[*].Id' --region $region --output json extractors: - type: json name: distributions internal: true json: - '.[]' - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws cloudfront get-distribution-config --id $distribution --query 'DistributionConfig.CacheBehaviors.Items[*].Compress' --region $region --output text matchers: - type: word words: - "False" extractors: - type: dsl dsl: - '"CloudFront Compress Objects Automatically " + distribution + " is Disabled"' # digest: 4a0a0047304502210094de0b064b70663a82dba4b63ac8d5b2663b8251696fd3bba81d0a375c0fcbe7022018997148c58889699314b47fb7586b8ca1d4092bc320438bfab6d104904fe6ac:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950