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		melvinmt on May 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 3 Problems AWS Needs to Address Cloudfront actually does support gzip encoding if you use Custom Origin, just not with S3.

jelder on May 9, 2012 [–]

Technically, CloudFront supports Accept-Encoding/Transfer Encoding, and /not/ compression. If client and server supported ROT13 as an encoding, CloudFront would support that, too. CloudFront is neither compressing nor decompressing anything.

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