Amazon has followed Google’s example by lowering the boom on a practice called “domain fronting” that organisations like Signal use to get around government censorship.
As defined by Amazon Web Services, “Domain Fronting is when a non-standard client makes a TLS/SSL connection to a certain name, but then makes a HTTPS request for an unrelated name. For example, the TLS connection may connect to ‘www.example.com’ but then issue a request for ‘www.example.org’.”
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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/
