AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Category: Elastic Load Balancing

Enhancing Workload Security on AWS with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange

As organizations move to the cloud, securing workloads, applications, and data becomes critical. This post discusses using Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange to provide comprehensive cloud security. Key security capabilities highlighted include SSL inspection, data loss prevention, and URL filtering policies tailored for cloud workloads. The post provides guidance on design considerations and implementing baseline security policies within the Zscaler platform.

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Building End-to-End Visibility with NETSCOUT APM Using Traffic Mirroring and Gateway Load Balancer

NETSCOUT’s nGeniusONE platform offers insights into service delivery and user experience to manage availability and quality, reducing time to resolve performance issues by correlating metadata across network, applications, and devices. This post discusses implementing holistic visibility using NETSCOUT APM with VPC traffic mirroring and AWS Gateway Load Balancer. NETSCOUT delivers consistent, high-resolution visibility to identify and manage threats and performance in cloud environments.

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Trellix vIPS and AWS Gateway Load Balancer Integrate for a Next-Gen Intrusion Prevention System

As enterprises migrate to the cloud, advanced cybersecurity solutions are essential to prevent sophisticated attacks. Trellix’s virtual intrusion prevention system (vIPS) integrates with AWS Gateway Load Balancer to provide real-time threat detection and prevention. Utilizing techniques like behavioral analysis and signatureless detection, Trellix vIPS helps secure VPCs against evolving threats. As an AWS Specialization Partner, Trellix enables resilience against cyberattacks for customers’ cloud environments.

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Authenticate Kubecost Users with Application Load Balancer and Amazon Cognito

Amazon EKS has a collaboration with Kubecost, a Kubernetes and cloud cost management tool that helps customers monitor, track, optimize, and govern their cloud and Kubernetes spending. Kubecost can be installed easily in a few minutes, but many customers are looking for a cloud-native way to expose Kubecost UI for their internal team to access the costs report. This post describes how to authenticate Kubecost users via Application Load Balancer and Amazon Cognito.

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SaaS Identity and Routing with Istio Service Mesh and Amazon EKS

Many SaaS providers are leveraging Amazon EKS to build their solutions on AWS, as EKS provides builders with a range of different constructs that can be used to implement multi-tenant strategies. In this post, explore an architecture based on EKS that demonstrates a siloed SaaS deployment model, using Istio Service Mesh to manage request authentication and per-tenant routing. Istio is an open-source service mesh that many SaaS providers use for deploying their multi-tenant applications.

Centralized Traffic Inspection with Gateway Load Balancer on AWS

SoftwareOne has a proven record of successful implementations of centralized inspection with AWS Transit Gateway and site-to-site VPN attachments for our customers. Vendor-provided firewalls remain an option, and the focus of this post is their integration with Gateway Load Balancer. Explore the decisions SoftwareOne took while migrating from centralized north-south inspection with Transit Gateway VPN attachments to centralized inspection with GWLB in front of the Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls.

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How to Change SaaS Network Configurations Without Affecting Your Customers

Many organizations prefer to connect to SaaS or managed services over a VPN. If you are an independent software vendor that has to periodically change your network configuration, these customer VPNs present a challenge. The solutions detailed in this post describe different approaches to isolating virtual private clouds that host applications and services from an enterprise network. You can use these strategies to add more services to your customers with no changes to customer network configurations, avoiding delays.

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How Swisscom Saved DroneAnalytics 60% on AWS Services by Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework

DroneAnalytics offers hardware and software solutions for drones and connected objects. The consulting services from Swisscom, based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, enabled them to more properly monitor their consumption of AWS services. By leveraging Well-Architected best practices and working with Swisscom, DroneAnalytics saved 60 percent on their AWS spend, whilst maintaining the same or better levels of operational efficiency, reliability, and performance.

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Improving the Performance of Distributed Atlassian Applications with Amazon CloudFront

Atlassian users who run Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket applications across distributed teams find that, due to slower network connectivity, content sometimes loads much slower for team members in geographically distant regions. A new feature in Atlassian’s Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket Data Center versions allows the use of Amazon CloudFront to improve the user experience and overall performance of applications hosted in other global regions.

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Using Elastic Load Balancing for Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS Deployments

With Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS, customers can enjoy the agile, flexible consumption models and management of the AWS Cloud. This is great for temporary desktop and application capacity, application locality, data center expansions,POC, and disaster recovery use cases. In this post, we provide guidance on how customers looking to deploy Horizon 7 on VMware Cloud on AWS can make use of Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancing to provide greater scalability, availability, and fault tolerance.