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Record CloudFront request headers on sessions

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AWS CloudFront has an optional feature that attaches IP, location, latitude/longitude and other details to every request it proxies. Recording these on each login session is cheap and sounds valuable, but in practice geolocation doesn't work as well as expected.

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takeaway Record CloudFront request headers on sessions
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About using CloudFront headers for session telemetry.
takeaway Record CloudFront request headers on sessions
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Lesson learned about CloudFront geolocation quality.

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