Networking & Content Delivery
Author: Matt Lehwess
Matt Lehwess is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect on the Amazon EC2 service team at Amazon Web Services. He works on EC2 strategy and customer engagement with AWS's largest customers. Originally from Australia and now based in San Francisco, Matt enjoys surfing, climbing, and long-distance hiking in the California wilderness.
Best Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2
With sixth-generation Nitro (Nitro V6) instances, launched in June 2025, the default TCP connection tracking idle timeout changed from 432,000 seconds (5 days) to 350 seconds. Applications that hold idle connections open for long periods, such as database connection pools, Internet of Things (IoT) telemetry, and persistent microservice connections, may experience unexpected connection drops after […]
Introducing Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) for Amazon VPC
A public IP address is a big part of what is used to identify you on the public internet. In cases such as migration, whitelisting, or even IP address reputation, it can be important to you as the application owner, that your application’s IP address remains the same, or in the case of a migration, […]