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Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points

calendar_today August 20, 2026 person aws@amazon.com domain amazon-q

Starting today, customers can protect their origins using Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points (MRAP) by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions. Customers use Amazon S3 MRAP with CloudFront to serve content from a single global endpoint that automatically routes to the closest available replicated bucket across regions during a cache miss, improving performance and resilience for globally distributed users. Previously, customers had to compute and forward their own Asymmetric Signature Version 4 (SigV4a) Authorization header u

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