Comment on 3 Problems AWS Needs to AddressComments−melvinmt14yCloudfront actually does support gzip encoding if you use Custom Origin, just not with S3.−jelder14yTechnically, 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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Cloudfront actually does support gzip encoding if you use Custom Origin, just not with S3.
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.