diff --git a/api/app/settings/production.py b/api/app/settings/production.py
index 0cf5a0cb9d2d..ff1738c979d2 100644
--- a/api/app/settings/production.py
+++ b/api/app/settings/production.py
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@
 
 # Needed by Elastic Beanstalk to correctly identify incoming protocol
 # https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/x-forwarded-headers.html#x-forwarded-proto
-SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ("X-Forwarded-Proto", "https")
+# Although in our case SSL termination happens in Cloudfront so the header is named as below.
+SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ("HTTP_CLOUDFRONT_FORWARDED_PROTO", "https")