Networking & Content Delivery

Shiva Vaidyanathan

Author: Shiva Vaidyanathan

Shiva Vaidyanathan is a Principal Cloud Architect at AWS. He provides technical guidance, design and leads complex customer migration and modernization initiatives ensuring their success on AWS. He focuses on building agents for migration and modernization use cases leveraging Generative AI making AWS cloud adoption simpler for everyone. Prior to joining AWS, he has worked on several NSF funded research initiatives on how to perform secure computing in public cloud infrastructures. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University and a MS in Electrical Engineering from New York University.

Building Intelligent Network Operations Agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Building Intelligent Network Operations Agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

It’s 2 AM when your phone alerts you to failing customer transactions in the North Virginia Region. As a network operator managing an Imaging platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS), you’re faced with troubleshooting an architecture that spans multiple Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), uses AWS Transit Gateway for interconnectivity, and runs many microservices. […]

Streamlining network deployments using AWS Cloud Control

Streamlining network deployments using AWS Cloud Control

Introduction In today’s multi-cloud landscape, organizations face significant challenges in network configuration and resource management. Traditional tools often need deep, tool-specific knowledge, which leads to increased deployment times and configuration errors. The AWS Cloud Control API addresses these common cloud management challenges by providing a unified, language-agnostic interface for resource management. It offers immediate access […]

NetDevSecOps to modernize AWS networking deployments

NetDevOps orchestrates and automates network changes to shorten the network delivery lifecycle, treats the network as code to allow for version control, and tests changes to make sure of quality and stability. This increased speed helps organizations better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market. The post NetDevOps: A modern approach to AWS […]

Analyzing stale security group rules using serverless architecture

Security is a top priority for AWS and customers running workloads in AWS. The previous post Top 10 security items to improve in your AWS account, covered the top security items that AWS customers should pay special attention to if they want to improve their security posture. High on the list is the need to […]

AWS Cloud WAN and Amazon VPC IPAM with AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower offers a straightforward way to set up and govern a multi-account AWS environment, following prescriptive best practices to build a secure landing zone quickly. You can provision tens, if not hundreds, of new AWS accounts at one time using AWS Control Tower. Once you provision accounts, you typically require the deployment of Amazon […]

IP Address Management for AWS Control Tower

For many customers, governing and auditing IP address allocation for at-scale networks is a complex, time-consuming, and potentially error-prone task. This is because application workloads are rapidly migrating to the cloud. Traditionally, network administrators have resorted to using combinations of spreadsheets, home-grown tools, and scripts to track address assignments across multiple accounts, Amazon Virtual Private […]

Continuous verification of network compliance using Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer and AWS Security Hub

Introduction As your distributed application teams operate network infrastructure, it can be challenging for central security, networking, or cloud operations teams to determine whether the correct network controls are in place. Network controls, such as firewall rules, NAT Gateways, network access control lists (ACL’s), security groups, and network segmentation, serve as a critical first line […]

Calculating data transfer leveraging Amazon VPC flow logs

Introduction There are several factors that contribute towards your overall costs incurred in AWS cloud. When it comes to networking, many customers ask about data transfer charges. You pay a Data Transfer charge when you send data out from AWS to Internet, between AWS Regions, or between Availability Zones (AZ). Today, there are multiple ways […]

Introduction to Network Transformation on AWS – Part 2

Introduction This blog post is a continuation of Introduction to Network Transformation on AWS – Part 1. To recap, as your organization begins to embrace cloud, you extend your network to AWS using a hybrid connectivity architecture. When we work with customers, we see that their network traffic patterns have been changing as more applications […]

Migrating from Squid Web Proxy to AWS Network Firewall

Introduction Regardless of size or industry, it’s common for organizations to have security and compliance rules for securing internet-bound traffic. AWS customers need control over, and the ability to filter, requests that are initiated by resources in private and public subnets and sent to the internet. This is also known as “egress filtering.” In AWS, […]