AWS Architecture Blog
Author: Vijay Menon
Vijay Menon is a Principal Solutions Architect based out of Singapore with a background in large scale networks and communications infrastructure. He enjoys learning new technologies and helping customers solve complex technical problems by providing solutions using AWS products and services. When he is not helping customers, he likes to go on long runs and spend time with family and friends.
Field Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts
Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. That’s why many customers replicate their mission-critical workloads in multiple places using a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy suited for their needs. With AWS, a customer can achieve this by deploying multi Availability Zone High-Availability […]
Field Notes: How to Identify and Block Fake Crawler Bots Using AWS WAF
In this blog post, we focus on how to identify fake bots using these AWS services: AWS WAF, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda. We use fake Google/Bing bots to demonstrate, but the principles can be applied to other popular crawlers like Slurp Bot from Yahoo, DuckDuckBot from DuckDuckGo, Alexa crawler from […]
Field Notes: Using Infrastructure as Code to Manage Your AWS Networking Environment
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) brings automation to the provisioning process, which was traditionally done manually. Rather than relying on manually performed steps, both administrators and developers can instantiate infrastructure using configuration files. IaC helps avoid configuration drift through automation, and increases the speed and agility of infrastructure deployments. It also helps reduce errors and enhances […]