Additional CloudFront Log Formats and Destinations

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pre:Invent 2025 released additional CloudFront log format and destination options.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-cloudfront-log-formats-destinations-access

This release was long overdue to improve efficiency for security monitoring.

CloudWatch Logs (CWL)

• JSON
• TEXT

Kinesis Data Firehose

• JSON
• TEXT
• RAW

Simple Storage Service (S3)

• W3C
• PARQUET
• JSON
• TEXT