AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
Category: Networking & Content Delivery
Introducing the AWS Networking Competency for Consulting Partners
Networking is fundamental to cloud adoption and critical for infrastructure expansion, redundancy, and resiliency. To make it easier for customers to find validated AWS Networking Partners, we are excited to introduce the new AWS Networking Competency for Consulting Partners. These partners have deep domain expertise in developing a consistent network and security policy, as well as solutions that offer a new way of routing traffic through private backbones and cloud cores.
Secure Data and Analytics with Talend Data Fabric and Stitch Using AWS PrivateLink
The most valuable data for many companies is often the most sensitive and most regulated, such as electronic health records or financial data. Talend Data Fabric combines data integration, data integrity, and data governance in a single, unified platform that makes it easy to collect, transform, clean, govern, and share your data. Learn about Talend’s integration with AWS PrivateLink that allows customers to send data without using the public internet.
Integrating Third-Party Firewall Appliances with VMware Cloud on AWS Using VMware Transit Connect
As customers continually move towards hybrid cloud architectures, it has become increasingly important to address network security requirements for having a centralized security inspection solution between VMware Cloud on AWS and the native AWS environment, on-premises data centers, and the internet. Through this post, learn how to integrate preferred third-party firewall solutions with VMware Cloud on AWS, by leveraging the VMware Transit Connect feature.
Using Bitbucket Pipelines and OpenID Connect to Deploy to Amazon S3
Bitbucket Pipelines, an integrated CI/CD tool within Bitbucket Cloud that enables developers to execute builds right from within Bitbucket, recently introduced an integration with OpenID Connect and AWS. OpenID Connect is an identity layer above the Oauth 2.0 protocol. With this integration, Bitbucket Pipelines users can authenticate with Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, and other AWS resources without having to store secret tokens in Bitbucket.
How Aviatrix Provides Deep Visibility, Troubleshooting, and Monitoring for Your AWS Network
Aviatrix can augment cloud-native functionality with enterprise-grade visibility, troubleshooting, and monitoring tools. Learn about the Aviatrix Cloud Network Platform and dig into the advanced capabilities that make day-2 operations a breeze. The Aviatrix Cloud Network Platform consists of a centralized controller that is multi-cloud aware and intelligent cloud routers called gateways. By bringing a data plane into AWS, you get more control over traffic and can introduce intelligent routing.
Cisco ASAv Remote Access VPN for AWS with External Multi-Factor Authentication
An important design consideration for cloud-based client VPN service architectures is the choice of authentication mechanism to use for connecting remote users to VPN services. Cisco ASAv Remote Access VPN integrates with Cisco Duo to add multi-factor authentication to ASAv AnyConnect VPN connections. Cisco is an AWS ISV Partner that helps customers optimize their cloud strategy by bringing together networking, security, analytics, and management.
Design Considerations Using VPC Endpoints for Amazon S3 with VMware Cloud on AWS
With the general availability of AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 released earlier this year, customers can take advantage of private connectivity between S3 and on-premises resources using private IPs from your virtual network. Learn how to leverage interface VPC endpoints (AWS PrivateLink) for Amazon S3 and its integrations with VMware Cloud on AWS, which brings VMware’s enterprise-class software-defined data center software to the AWS Cloud.
Protecting Over-the-Top Streaming with Watermarking and Disruption from Synamedia and AWS
Synamedia is a leader in video content protection and distribution, starting with satellite-based distribution access control. As customers have moved to over-the-top (OTT) distribution, content protection now includes protecting against pirated streams. Learn how Synamedia reviews the security challenges that accompany OTT live video and how organizations can combine Synamedia’s Headend Watermaking and Streaming Piracy Disruption capabilities to curtail piracy.
Amazon CloudFront Cache Strategy for Successful Global Game Deployment
Game service providers around the world are releasing new games and updating large-scale contents to attract game users. This post explores how you can leverage the benefits of Amazon CloudFront to deliver successful global gaming content and examines how to leverage CloudFront’s cache, especially in the gaming field. Additionally, CloudFront integrates with AWS Shield and AWS WAF to add flexible layer-specific security types from attacks at the network transport and application layers.
AWS Direct Connect Integration with VMware Cloud on AWS
With hybrid implementations, we see a design pattern where customers configure connectivity to allow communication between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS networks. Customers use various methods such us a VPN and/or AWS Direct Connect to implement hybrid cloud connectivity. Learn how to leverage Direct Connect to establish hybrid connectivity between on-premises VMware infrastructure and VMware Cloud on AWS.