Author: Alexandra Huides

In this post, we review the most common Domain Name System (DNS) strategies to migrate your applications to Amazon VPC Lattice in a phased approach. These options allow you to reduce downtime, minimize overhead, and maintain consistent DNS resolution for your clients and applications on AWS. VPC Lattice is a fully managed end-to-end application networking […]

An increasing number of organizations are adopting IPv6 in their environments, driven by government mandates, public IPv4 space exhaustion, and private IPv4 scarcity. To accommodate for workload growth, integrate new business needs (for example, mergers and acquisitions), expand into other regions, and increase developer productivity, you need to design and implement a scalable, extensible, and […]

An update was made on November 25, 2024: Amazon Q support for network troubleshooting is now generally available. Learn more. This blog post explores how Amazon Q, the generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant from AWS, helps you troubleshoot network-related issues by working with Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer. These are exciting times for cloud networking! […]

AWS Global Accelerator now supports client IP address preservation with Network Load Balancer endpoints. This feature allows you to maintain the source IP address of the original client for packets that arrive at Network Load Balancers configured as Global Accelerator endpoints. In this blog post, we discuss use cases and benefits for using Global Accelerator […]

Update: February 1, 2024 – AWS now charges for public IPv4 addresses provided by AWS. This blog post has more details on this topic. Today AWS announced new charges for AWS-provided public IPv4 addresses beginning February 1, 2024. In this blog post, we introduce two new features launching today to help you track and monitor […]

Introduction In this blog post, we will discuss how you can use Amazon VPC Lattice to connect your services securely, and monitor communication flows, in a simple and consistent way across instances, containers, and serverless, in a multi-account and multi-Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment. We’ll define the new constructs VPC Lattice leverages to enable application […]

Internet Protocol (IP) address management is an essential network planning and management component, and creating a scalable addressing scheme allows your AWS and hybrid network to expand, accommodating the needs of your workloads. Careful consideration for how your IP address space is allocated minimizes the risk of overlapping Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks, and of […]

AWS has just announced the release of a new internet monitoring service, Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. Performance and availability over the internet are key insights that can help you deliver a bar-raising user experience for your AWS applications. User experience can be greatly impacted by internet events outside your control that can go unnoticed. Creating […]

Introduction With the increasing adoption of IPv6 on AWS, the need to create an easy-to-manage, hierarchical, and scalable IP addressing plan for Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) becomes critical for customers. With IPv4, adding more CIDR blocks to a VPC was driven mainly by the need to increase the address space within a VPC. […]

Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are continuously increasing the number of applications and workloads they run on AWS, driven by accelerated cloud adoption and environment expansion. An environment can be considered “Hyperscale” once it supports thousands of application endpoints and tens or hundreds of gigabits of traffic per second. Hyperscale environments on AWS favor […]