Networking & Content Delivery
Tag: AWS Transit Gateway
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 […]
Monitoring surveillance camera feeds on AWS with multicast technology
As governments seek to improve security and safety in public places, video surveillance in the public sector is a rapidly growing technology. Video surveillance is increasingly being used in public places such as airports, train stations, public transportation, schools, and government buildings. Governments all over the world aim to put in place various measures to […]
Establish private connectivity between Salesforce and your on-premises network using AWS Direct Connect
Salesforce is an AWS Partner and a trusted global leader in customer relationship management (CRM). Hyperforce is the next-generation Salesforce architecture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). When business applications developed on Hyperforce are integrated with on-premises systems, traffic in both directions will flow over the internet. For customers in heavily regulated industries such as […]
IPv6 deployment models for AWS Network Firewall
AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion protection service that allows you to implement firewalls rules for fine grained control over your network traffic. If you’re new to AWS Network Firewall, and want to understand its features and use cases, we recommend you review the blog post AWS Network Firewall – […]
Using AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs to chargeback data processing costs in a multi-account environment
Many AWS customers use consolidated billing, and often need to allocate costs across their internal business units or accounts. This can be challenging when dealing with services that are shared by all accounts. For general chargebacks, some customers use cost allocation tags for this purpose. However, at the time of writing this post, there is […]
Understand your network traffic trends using AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs
AWS Transit Gateway is a network transit hub that enables you to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and your on-premises networks using a single gateway. This simplifies your network connection and puts an end to complex peering relationships. AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs enables you to export detailed telemetry information, such as source/destination […]
Experian: Centralized internet ingress using AWS Gateway Load Balancer and AWS Transit Gateway
This is a guest post co-written with Mike Mosher, Sr Principal Cloud Platform Network Architect, and Daniel Lee, Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, from Experian. Experian is a global technology company that offers credit risk, fraud, targeted marketing, and automated decisioning solutions. We are an AWS early adopter and have embraced the cloud to drive digital […]
Hybrid cloud architectures using AWS Direct Connect gateway
In April 2023, AWS increased several AWS Direct Connect quota limits, as you have asked for increased scale and capacity for hybrid cloud connectivity. With the new limits, you can now create up to four Transit Virtual interfaces (VIFs) per AWS Direct Connect dedicated connection. The maximum number of prefixes has increased to 200 for […]
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 […]
Centralizing outbound Internet traffic for dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 VPCs
Organizations have been adopting IPv6 in their IPv4 environments to solve IP address exhaustion or meet compliance requirements. Since IPv6 isn’t backward compatible with IPv4, several mechanisms can facilitate communication between hosts that support one or both protocols. One common way is by using dual stack deployments. For architectures where dual stack deployments aren’t the […]