Networking & Content Delivery

Category: Industries

Dynamic routing using Amazon VPC Route Server

Amazon VPC Route Server enables dynamic routing within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You can use Amazon VPC Route Server for effective and intelligent traffic control between cloud applications and on-premises systems. Amazon VPC Route Server uses BGP to provide advanced control over traffic paths, especially for failures, and […]

How to seamlessly migrate traffic between Direct Connect gateways

In this blog post, we explore a scenario in which Goldman Sachs, wanted to transfer ownership of several of its key network components between teams in a controlled and seamless manner. Specifically, we take a deep dive on migrating traffic between Direct Connect gateways while maintaining end-to-end connectivity. As a multinational investment bank and financial […]

Experian: Centralized internet ingress using AWS Gateway Load Balancer and AWS Transit Gateway

This is a guest post co-written with Mike Mosher, Sr Principal Cloud Platform Network Architect, and Daniel Lee, Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, from Experian. Experian is a global technology company that offers credit risk, fraud, targeted marketing, and automated decisioning solutions. We are an AWS early adopter and have embraced the cloud to drive digital […]

Limiting requests to a web application using a Gatekeeper Solution

Many types of organizations encounter DDOS attacks daily. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, is an attack pattern that generates fake traffic to overwhelm organisation’s properties (websites, APIs, applications, etc.) and make it unavailable to legitimate users. They majority of these attacks involve a huge burst of fake traffic that exhausts the application’s resources (Memory […]

World Cup 2022 – Amazon CloudFront retrospective

It was only just over a month ago, yet somehow it already feels like it could have been a dream. Following 4 action-packed weeks of soccer, capped by perhaps the greatest ever final of any major tournament, Lionel Messi lifted the World Cup aloft in the futuristic Lusail Stadium in Qatar. It was a World […]

Improving video observability with CMCD and CloudFront

Observability is critical for operating any system. It should tell whether the system is functioning correctly, provide insights in user experience, notify when issues occur, and help to locate the root cause. However, building an observable video streaming system can be a challenge for customers as it requires collecting, correlating, and analyzing data from several […]

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]. […]

Design patterns for interconnecting a telco data center to an Amazon VPC

Traditionally, communication service providers (CSPs) in the telecom industry have used a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) technique to segregate their data center (DC) networks per each network domains; for examples of domain such as Operation, Administration & Management (OAM), signaling, roaming, and user traffic networks. Each VRF domain in the data center must also […]

AWS Direct Connect expands presence in Australia with 100 Gbps connections and MACsec

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. With the launch of a new AWS Direct Connect location in the NextDC S2 Sydney data center, you can now establish dedicated 100 Gbps and encrypted connections with resiliency across two Sydney locations. Equinix SY3, an existing location in Sydney, also […]

On-the-fly video conversion with Amazon CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, and AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Introduction: Whether your media library includes long form featured movies or short form “how-to” clips, the popularity of each video asset is typically set by your viewers preference. In order to deliver your online video content, AWS offers multiple solutions that you can use to automate your media supply chain, and streamline your content distribution. […]