Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Network latency concepts and best practices for a resilient architecture
Network incidents can occur at times that may impact latency in AWS Regions , Availability Zones (AZs), and individual infrastructure components, such as server hardware. Users can also experience more latency because of the introduction of network appliances in their traffic path. This post explains some of the best practices that allow you to identify […]
Using cross-zone load balancing with zonal shift
Today, we’re announcing Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift support for Application Load Balancers (ALB) with cross-zone load balancing enabled. This complements the support for Network Load Balancers (NLB) using cross-zone load balancing we announced previously. Now you can use zonal shift with both NLBs and ALBs, with or without cross-zone load balancing configured, […]
How to identify website performance bottlenecks by measuring time to first byte latency and using Server-Timing header
While website performance issues are a common occurrence, pinpointing their root causes can be a challenging task. In this post, you will learn how to simplify the performance troubleshooting process by unlocking the potential of the Server-Timing header. This header allows backend components to communicate timing metrics and other insights relevant to performance monitoring in […]
How to monitor internet traffic to CloudFront edge in one click with Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a streamlined solution for you to monitor internet traffic to your CloudFront distribution with simple integration for Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor in the Amazon CloudFront console. Ensuring optimal performance and availability is paramount for internet applications. With this integration, you can easily gain more insights into internet health and your users’ experience for an application that you’ve set up with a CloudFront distribution.
Scaling strategies for Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) offers four types of load balancers, all featuring high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security support for your applications: Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), and Classic Load Balancer (CLB). ELB automatically scales up and down, and scales in and out in response to traffic […]
Monitor hybrid connectivity with Amazon CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor
Please note: due to an issue under investigation as of March 1, 2025, when the destination of a probe is reached through a Transit Gateway, the Network Health indicator may not reflect correctly the health of the underlying network path. We will remove this warning when this issue has been resolved. Today we announce the […]
Prepare and run performance tests for Amazon Cloudfront with Real User Monitoring
This blog post is written by Tanya Pahuja and Sumit Bhardwaj, Technical Account Managers – AWS Enterprise Support, with Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS For consumer-facing websites and mobile apps, the speed at which the content loads on the user’s screens directly impacts the user’s browsing experience and the success of your business. If […]
Optimizing AdTech end-user experiences Using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor
In this blog post, we will explain how you can leverage Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor to monitor internet conditions continuously to ensure optimal ad workflow and delivery. In the realm of digital programmatic advertising (AdTech), various platforms such as supply-side platforms, ad exchanges, demand-side platforms, data & customer management platforms, and others collaborate to assist […]
Improving Performance on AWS and Hybrid Networks
In this post, we provide recommendations to improve network performance on AWS and hybrid networks. In today’s enterprise networking environment, it is becoming common for customers to have multi-gigabit connectivity to AWS either through AWS Direct Connect or over the Internet. Although network bandwidth is fundamental, several other factors come into play for network performance, […]
Choosing the right health check with Elastic Load Balancing and EC2 Auto Scaling
Customers frequently use Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancers and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASG) to build scalable, resilient workloads. When configured correctly, Amazon ELB health checks help make your workload more resilient to failures in your workload components behind the load balancer. However, you may need to make tradeoffs for handling different failure […]