Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Networking & Content Delivery
Amazon VPC Lattice DNS migration strategies and best practices
In this post, we review the most common Domain Name System (DNS) strategies to migrate your applications to Amazon VPC Lattice in a phased approach. These options allow you to reduce downtime, minimize overhead, and maintain consistent DNS resolution for your clients and applications on AWS. VPC Lattice is a fully managed end-to-end application networking […]
Accelerate IPv6 application migration with AWS PrivateLink and dual stack Network Load Balancers UDP support
This post was co-authored by: Ashish Kumar, Senior Product Manager; Blayze Stefaniak, Senior Solutions Architect; Natti Swaminathan, Senior Solutions Architect; and Yogesh Patel, Senior Solutions Architect In this post, we review how you can leverage AWS PrivateLink support for User Datagram Protocol (UDP) services, and accelerate Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) migrations with UDP support […]
Improving security and performance with additional DNS resource record types in Amazon Route 53
DNS is a key component of modern computing, a phone book for IP addresses. It is distinct from other protocols in the application stack. Because it is queried early in the request by a client, DNS is well suited to relay application-specific information back to a client as early as possible. This additional data can […]
Optimizing web application user experiences with AWS WAF JavaScript integrations
AWS WAF Bot Control uses CAPTCHA and Challenge actions to undertake a browser interaction before permitting requests to protected resources. These actions can result in a poor user experience because of application errors or unexpected CAPTCHA completion when AWS WAF unexpectedly blocks requests. The AWS WAF JavaScript integrations give you the ability to control these […]
Unlock self-service, enterprise-grade VPC capabilities with seamless integrations
Introduction Defining and provisioning standardized virtual private cloud (VPC) patterns across an enterprise poses several challenges for many customers. These challenges include ensuring self-service capabilities, meeting security and compliance requirements, and maintaining adherence to those requirements. Traditionally, when an application team wants to provision a VPC in their workload account, it is requested through a […]
Network observability for modern applications
In today’s highly distributed and cloud-based IT environments, network monitoring has become crucial for organizations to maintain the health, performance, and security of their applications and infrastructure. However, as modern application architectures evolve, with multiple layers of abstraction and cloud-native services, many teams look for better ways to collect and use the high-quality network data […]
How to dynamically adapt your response to changing threat levels using AWS WAF
Customers use AWS WAF to protect their web applications and APIs. They typically use a mixture of managed rules and their own custom rules, and then tune them in order to prevent as much undesired traffic as possible from reaching their applications. This implementation and tuning exercise typically produces a web access control list (web ACL) that […]
Introducing security group referencing for AWS Transit Gateway
Today, we are introducing support for security group referencing on AWS Transit Gateway. This new feature allows you to create inbound security rules that reference security groups defined in other Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) attached to a transit gateway within the same Amazon Web Services (AWS) Region. Outbound security rules referencing over Transit […]
Enabling global expansion and reduced operational overhead at Comcast with AWS Transit Gateway
This blog post is co-written by David Hocky from Comcast Corporation. This post explains how Comcast achieved faster time-to-market for new product launches, increased resiliency, and reduced operational overhead by using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect. Comcast is a global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms, to […]
Migrate your workloads to use VPC endpoints with minimum downtime
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints are comprised of gateway and interface endpoints that enable users to privately access supported Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and VPC endpoint services powered by AWS PrivateLink. They offer several benefits for organizations looking to enhance their cloud infrastructure’s security, performance, and cost efficiency. In an earlier post, Reduce […]