Networking & Content Delivery

Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Announcing Amazon Virtual Private Gateway Ingress Routing support for Gateway Load Balancer

Today, on 30th August 2023, AWS launched a new enhancement to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Ingress Routing feature. With this enhancement, customers can now specify a Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint (GWLBE) as the next-hop in the virtual private gateway (VGW) route table. This allows customers to inspect their traffic coming into AWS […]

Securing Amazon API Gateway with secure ciphers using Amazon CloudFront

Enterprise customers have differing requirements based on a number of reasons including security, compliance, governance, and the industry they operate. In certain situations, customers are expected to adhere to certain protocols and standards that are non-negotiable. In this post, we explore how customers can specify TLS protocols and associated ciphers that are allowed from viewers […]

How to configure block duration for IP addresses rate limited by AWS WAF

Volumetric attack is one of the most common type of cyberattack, where a web application is overwhelmed with an enormous number of HTTP requests. This flood of excessive requests puts a strain on the application’s servers, leading to degraded performance, increased latency for legitimate users and in severe cases, resource exhaustion. AWS WAF’s rate-based rules […]

Using AWS WAF intelligent threat mitigations with cross-origin API access

AWS WAF offers advanced features for filtering undesired web application traffic, such as Bot Control and Fraud Control. These intelligent threat mitigations include techniques such as client-side interrogations using JavaScript challenges or CAPTCHA, as well as client-side behavioral analysis. Implementing these techniques on a web page with a same-origin access is simple. When a cross-domain […]

Mitigate Common Web Threats with One Click in Amazon CloudFront

You can now add AWS WAF protections to Amazon CloudFront distributions with one click. In this walkthrough, we will guide you through setting up and monitoring protections offered by this new feature along with pricing and additional security recommendations. This blog relates to Amazon CloudFront — a AWS service that you can use to deliver […]

NetDevSecOps to modernize AWS networking deployments

NetDevOps orchestrates and automates network changes to shorten the network delivery lifecycle, treats the network as code to allow for version control, and tests changes to make sure of quality and stability. This increased speed helps organizations better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market. The post NetDevOps: A modern approach to AWS […]

Introducing AWS Verified Access – General Availability

Introduction AWS Verified Access enables customers to provide VPN-less, secure access to their corporate applications. We released it as a preview during AWS re:Invent 2022. Today, we are happy to announce that this service is now generally available (GA). Built using AWS Zero Trust principles, customers can use Verified Access to reduce the risks associated […]

Limiting requests to a web application using a Gatekeeper Solution

Many types of organizations encounter DDOS attacks daily. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, is an attack pattern that generates fake traffic to overwhelm organisation’s properties (websites, APIs, applications, etc.) and make it unavailable to legitimate users. They majority of these attacks involve a huge burst of fake traffic that exhausts the application’s resources (Memory […]

Centralized outbound inspection architecture in AWS Cloud WAN

AWS Cloud WAN helps you build a unified network that connects your cloud and on-premises environments. To help secure these networks, organizations use next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) as part of a defense in depth strategy. In this post, we describe architectural patterns for centrally managing and inspecting outbound network traffic from […]

Automating HTTP/S Redirects and certificate management at scale

Organizations today use many ways to drive traffic to their websites and applications. This is important for new feature launches, marketing campaigns, advertising, and so on. One common approach uses HTTP/S redirects, where you send a user from one domain, or Uniform Resource Locator (URL), to another. Redirects are incredibly useful tools when moving websites, […]