Geo-routing, A/B testing and dynamic configuration with Lambda@Edge — part 1

Working at the edge is one of the fantastic opportunities offered by Amazon and AWS Lambda is the key component for enhancing our infrastructure on the edge.
More recently many other vendors started to offer similar services like Cloudflare with edge workers for instance, in general many CDNs providers are looking to add a similar service like the AWS one.

Lambda@Edge introduction

Lambda@Edge provides you the possibility to extend the behaviours of a request or response directly on the edge.
This paradigm, in conjunction with the serverless one, can provide a great flexibility in structuring our applications and it can prevent that too many requests hit our application servers executing operations directly on the edge like headers manipulation, access control, redirection rules, images manipulation and so on.
In order to work with Lambda@Edge in AWS we just need to setup a Cloudfront distribution in front of our infrastructure, the Cloudfront distribution will allow us to setup our logic on the edge because we are able to intercept the 4 states of a request and interact with them.
In fact Lambda@Edge can be triggered at:

· viewer request: in this case the lambda is triggered when Cloudfront receives a request from a client
· origin request: the lambda is triggered before Cloudfront forwards the request to origin
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