Networking & Content Delivery

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide choice of networking services. While these services enable AWS to meet more customer needs around networking, that variety increases the number of available options to consider in making architectural decisions when designing AWS and hybrid networking infrastructure. Cost is one of the main factors that drive architectural decisions […]

Introduction Since its launch, AWS Cloud WAN has sparked a lot of interest from customers and has seen a number of enhancements. The latest is service insertion, a new capability that lets you easily insert AWS and third-party networking and security services onto AWS Cloud WAN using a central policy document. Using this feature, you […]

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers look to extend their Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks into the cloud. MPLS networks offer reliable and performance-optimized routes for data, making them a preferred choice for enterprise connectivity. AWS Direct Connect further enhances this by providing a dedicated network link from an organization’s on-premises networks to AWS. This […]

In today’s data-driven landscape, the efficient transfer of large datasets to and from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a critical piece of an enterprise’s cloud strategy. Common business use cases that need frequent transferring of large data sets include cloud-based data lakes that depend on receiving data from various sources. These sources often […]

Update: Sep 10, 2024 – Corrected a CloudWatch metric name. Amazon Web Service (AWS) Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is a managed AWS service that allows you to insert third-party firewall appliances into the data path. GWLB helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party appliances, and it acts as a bump-in-the-wire device and passes traffic transparently […]

Update: Sep 17, 2024 – Clarification added on supported listener types   This post guides you through configuring AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) idle timeouts for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) flows. NLB is part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Load Balancing family, operating at Layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. […]

In this post, we examine how Druva, a SaaS vendor offering cloud data protection and management solutions, implemented AWS PrivateLink to secure data transfers between Druva’s customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Druva virtual private cloud (VPC). PrivateLink establishes private connectivity between VPCs, Amazon hosted services, and on-premises networks using VPC endpoints. This provides […]

Application owners often rely on content management systems (CMS) to publish and manage content on their websites. WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system. Originally launched as a blogging platform back in 2003, WordPress now powers 43% of all websites and controls a massive 64.3% of the known CMS market. The purpose of this […]

Introduction Large enterprises have a centralized networking team for configuring and managing baseline DNS settings across a multi-account, multi-VPC environment. Amazon Route 53 Profiles provides an ability to simplify management of DNS configuration across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts. Before this feature, users needed to perform the association of Private Hosted Zones (PHZ) and Route […]

At AWS, security is the top priority, and we are committed to providing you with the necessary guidance to fortify the security posture of your environment. In 2018, we introduced built-in authentication support for Application Load Balancers (ALBs), enabling secure user authentication as they access applications. This feature allows developers to offload the authentication responsibility […]