Networking & Content Delivery

AWS announced the launch of accelerated recovery for managing public Domain Name System (DNS) records, a new Amazon Route 53 feature that targets a 60-minute Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for your DNS operations in the unlikely event of service disruptions in the N. Virginia Region (us-east-1). This feature ensures continuity for your critical workloads by […]

Before you head into the Thanksgiving holiday, take a moment to read through this guide and start planning your AWS Networking re:Invent journey! From December 1st to December 5th, Las Vegas, Nevada will transform into the ultimate destination for cloud innovation, making it the perfect time to look ahead to the one of the most […]

This blog was co-authored by Manchun Yao, Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc. Snapchat is a popular app used by hundreds of millions of people around the world to communicate with their close friends and family. Snapchat’s focus is on enabling a fast and fun way to communicate by building features such as augmented reality […]

Customers who control access out of their AWS environments using self-managed proxies often find it challenging to deploy, scale, and patch their EC2 or container-based proxy fleets. With the recent launch of AWS Network Firewall proxy preview, AWS is taking over the heavy lifting of proxy management and deployment, allowing customers to focus on just […]

Users of today’s web applications expect instant responses, seamless interactions, and flawless experiences, no matter where they are located. Even the slightest delay can impact user engagement. Delivering content within milliseconds is a business imperative for modern web applications serving global audiences, whether it’s an e-commerce platform processing millions of transactions or a streaming service […]

Starting today, Amazon CloudFront supports viewer mTLS authentication from end users to CloudFront, enhancing security for highly distributed and sensitive applications. In modern architectures, securing client-server communication necessitates more than standard TLS, and mTLS extends this model by enforcing bidirectional authentication. This makes sure that both the client and the server verify each other’s identity […]

In our previous post on demystifying Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Transfer services, we discussed how we designed our global network infrastructure to be highly available, resilient, and performant. In this post, we discuss the AWS approach to Inbound Traffic Engineering (TE). The AWS global network infrastructure operates at a massive scale. In 2024, AWS […]

Today AWS announced Flexible Cost Allocation (FCA) for AWS Transit Gateway, a capability that gives you granular control over how Transit Gateway data processing costs are allocated across AWS accounts, including member accounts within AWS Organizations. With FCA, you configure metering policies for your Transit Gateway that allows you the flexibility to allocate charges to […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is working with eero to make it simpler and more convenient for organizations to establish secure connectivity between their remote sites and AWS in just a few clicks. The integration of AWS Site-to-Site VPN with eero’s devices enables organizations to scale site connectivity across many locations faster and more efficient, without requiring […]

AWS Application Load Balancer is an HTTP request load balancer designed to provide scalability through load distribution and high availability through target health detection and unhealthy target isolation. Today, we are excited to introduce ALB Target Optimizer, a powerful new feature through which ALB delivers optimal concurrency to each target. In this post, we will […]