Networking & Content Delivery

Shakeel Ahmad

Author: Shakeel Ahmad

Shakeel Ahmad is a Senior Solutions Architect based out of Melbourne, Australia specializing in cloud networking & hybrid infrastructures. He has a BS in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Network Systems. He’s passionate about technology and helping customers architect and build solutions to adopt the art of the possible on AWS.

Deployment models for AWS Network Firewall with VPC routing enhancements

Introduction Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated virtual network. It has inbuilt network security controls and implicit routing between VPC subnets by design. Network security controls such as security groups (SGs) and network access control lists (ACLs) provide you with options to control network traffic. However these controls operate at network and transport […]

Deployment models for AWS Network Firewall

10-Sep-2021: With recent enhancements to VPC routing primitives and how it unlocks additional deployment models for AWS Network Firewall along with the ones listed below, read part 2 of this blog post here. Introduction AWS services and features are built with security as a top priority. With Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), customers are able […]

Advanced Troubleshooting with AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager Route Analyzer

At re:Invent 2019, we introduced additional capabilities to build, manage, and monitor global networks using AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager. In 2020, we published a number of articles expanding on the topic of global networks. First, a blog post addressing why would you build a global network on AWS. Next, how to build […]

AWS Global Accelerator with CloudFormation

Using AWS CloudFormation with AWS Global Accelerator

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that helps you achieve lower latency, greater performance, and higher availability for internet traffic between your users’ client devices and your applications running on AWS. By using AWS CloudFormation with Global Accelerator, customers can use the power of infrastructure as code to build Global Accelerator deployments in a safe, secure, and repeatable manner. This blog […]