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Amazon CloudFront

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AWS CDN service that sits in front of the Rails application as a proxy. Has an optional feature that enriches every proxied request with headers describing the originating client — IP address, geo location, latitude/longitude, etc. Used in the Prevent Account Sharing talk to record this information on login sessions, though in practice geolocation accuracy turned out to be lower than expected.

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Amazon CloudFront tool
CloudFront headers (IP, geo, lat/long) are recorded on each login session.
about
Amazon CloudFront tool
About using CloudFront headers for session telemetry.
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Amazon CloudFront tool
Fronts application requests and injects geo/IP headers.

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