Networking & Content Delivery
Author: Riggs Goodman III
Riggs Goodman III is the Senior Global Tech Lead for the Networking Partner Segment at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Riggs has over 17 years of experience designing and architecting networking solutions for both partners and customers.
Connecting Saas services within a VPC Lattice service network
Many AWS customers modernizing their applications into modular services to speed up the development process and improve their ability to scale out individual services as part of the architecture. This includes services developed by the customer and SaaS applications developed by partners. Communication between services requires network connectivity across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. […]
Deploying hybrid networks using AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Direct Connect
Update: Jan 14, 2025 – AWS launched built-in support for Direct Connect attachments without requiring a TGW. For more information, please see the following launch blog AWS Cloud WAN is a managed wide-area networking (WAN) service for building, managing, and monitoring a unified global network, as well as connecting resources running across your cloud and […]
Introducing AWS Verified Access – General Availability
Introduction AWS Verified Access enables customers to provide VPN-less, secure access to their corporate applications. We released it as a preview during AWS re:Invent 2022. Today, we are happy to announce that this service is now generally available (GA). Built using AWS Zero Trust principles, customers can use Verified Access to reduce the risks associated […]
Introducing Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs helps you understand network traffic patterns on AWS by providing network telemetry data about the IP traffic flowing to and from ENIs in your VPC. It lets you perform numerous analytics tasks, such as diagnosing overly restrictive security group rules, monitoring traffic that is reaching an instance, […]
Introducing VPC Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway
Since the launch of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs in 2015, customers have utilized VPC Flow Logs to gain better visibility of network traffic patterns on AWS by providing network telemetry data regarding the IP traffic flowing to and from ENIs within a given VPC. As customers’ networks grew, customers began utilizing […]
Introduction to Traffic Mirroring to GWLB Endpoints as Target
Network architects need the ability to gain insights into real-time traffic between different resources within their VPCs. Since the announcement of VPC Traffic Mirroring in 2019, the VPC feature has provided this by copying network traffic from elastic networking interfaces (ENIs) on customer’s instances as source, and then sending the traffic to a destination target […]