Networking & Content Delivery
Author: Pratik R. Mankad
Pratik is a Senior Networking Solutions Architect at AWS with 18 years of experience in network engineering. He is passionate about network technologies and loves to innovate to help solve customer problems. He enjoys architecting solutions and providing technical guidance to help customers and partners achieve their business objectives.
Simplify global security inspection with AWS Cloud WAN Service Insertion
AWS Cloud WAN is a managed wide-area networking (WAN) service that you can use to build and operate wide area networks that connect your data centers and branch offices, as well as your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) VPCs. You can use network policies to centrally configure and automate network management and security tasks, […]
Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer Target Failover for Existing Flows
Introduction: AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service that allows customers to insert third-party virtual appliances such as firewall, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), network observability and others, transparently into the traffic path. Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) are reverse proxies and traffic is routed […]
Scale traffic using multiple Interface Endpoints
Update: As of January 27, 2022, AWS PrivateLink publishes data points to Amazon CloudWatch for your interface endpoints, Gateway Load Balancer endpoints, and endpoint services. CloudWatch enables you to retrieve statistics about those data points as an ordered set of time series data, known as metrics. As a PrivateLink Endpoint owner, you can use metrics […]
Centralized inspection architecture with AWS Gateway Load Balancer and AWS Transit Gateway
In our conversations with customers, we are often asked about the best way to architect centralized inspection architectures. Since the launch of AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), those discussions increasingly revolve around how to use AWS Transit Gateway, Gateway Load Balancer and Gateway Load Balancer Endpoints (GWLBE) together. In this post, we explain how to […]
Scaling network traffic inspection using AWS Gateway Load Balancer
Updated “Cross-zone load balancing and appliance failures” section on 25th March, 2021 Organizations use next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) as part of their defense in depth strategy. In an on-premises network, these often take the form of dedicated hardware or software or virtual “appliances.” As companies move to the cloud, they want […]
Hostname-as-Target for Network Load Balancers
Introduction: Network Load Balancers (NLB) is the flagship Layer 4 load balancer for AWS, offering elastic capacity, high performance, and integration with AWS services like AWS Auto Scaling. NLB is designed to handle millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latency, improving both availability and scalability. Network Load Balancers are widely used by all […]
Real-time communication at CrazyCall using AWS Global Accelerator
In the telecommunications industry, real-time communication (RTC) refers to live media sessions between two endpoints with minimum latency and jitter. These sessions could be for voice, instant messaging or live video. Each of these solutions consists of one or more signaling message exchanges that control the call (e.g., authentication, authorization and access control, transcoding, or […]