Get User Postal Code, Latitude, Longitude etc from AWS (cloudfront-viewer-postal-code, cloudfront-viewer-latitude, cloudfront-viewer-longitude etc)
6 min readFeb 22, 2021
Requirement — Get user postal code/zip (and/or Latitude, Longitude) to localize user content.
Option 1 — Go the Google geocoding route : https://bishonbopanna.medium.com/google-maps-api-for-postal-code-lookup-5a58495e0ef3
Option 2 : Use the AWS’s lambda edge to get geo location headers (Faster!).