Networking & Content Delivery

John Naylon

Author: John Naylon

John Naylon is a Senior Solutions Architect Manager at AWS, in the Telecom IBU. Before joining AWS, John received a PhD from the University of Cambridge and founded two disruptive startups in the wireless communications space. When he is not helping AWS customers to redefine the field of telecoms, John builds treehouses.

Optimize content delivery for mobile devices with Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront lets you securely deliver data, videos, applications, and APIs to your global customers with low latency and high transfer speeds. In today’s digital-first world with a worldwide customer base, it’s important to deliver digital assets to end users with the lowest possible load time. Mobile devices now account for approximately 70% of internet traffic [1]. […]

Automating service discovery using AWS Transit Gateway Multicast with IGMP

This post will describe how to use multicast and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), two of the newer features of AWS Transit Gateway, to enable applications and services to discover each other automatically when running in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) environments. Service discovery means that a service client, such as a network file […]