Category: Industries

Centralized VPC inspection with Amazon VPC Route Server and AWS Transit Gateway helps you route traffic from multiple virtual private clouds (VPCs) through a shared firewall for security enforcement. Spoke VPCs send traffic through AWS Transit Gateway to a dedicated inspection VPC, where firewall appliances examine it before forwarding. The challenge is making this inspection […]

Building resilient and fault-tolerant systems in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is essential for maintaining stable workloads. When designing cloud architecture, the ability to handle sudden traffic surges becomes a critical consideration. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) serves as the primary entry point for distributing both external and internal traffic efficiently across applications. In this post, we […]

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, serving over 25,000 customers across 190 countries. The company operates the London Stock Exchange and provides critical market data, analytics, and trading technology to banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and other financial institutions worldwide. Through its Real-Time Optimized (RTO) […]

This blog was co-authored by Manchun Yao, Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc. Snapchat is a popular app used by hundreds of millions of people around the world to communicate with their close friends and family. Snapchat’s focus is on enabling a fast and fun way to communicate by building features such as augmented reality […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]