Networking & Content Delivery

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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. […]

How AWS is helping to secure internet routing

The internet works reliably, in large part, on the basis of a key technology called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is a means by which all junction points on the internet (routers) communicate with each other to dynamically establish the correct (and correctly weighted) paths that network packets should follow to traverse the global networking […]

Audible Plus

CloudFront Migration Series (Part 2): Audible Plus, The Turning Point

Introduction In 2020, users have come to expect a flawless streaming media experience, whether it’s video, music, or audiobooks. Playback must start quickly and be resilient to changes in network availability and bandwidth. To deliver all of this content, you must have a performant, highly available and reliable Content Delivery Network (CDN) to reach customers […]

Introducing AWS Global Accelerator custom routing accelerators

AWS Global Accelerator now supports custom routing accelerators, a new type of accelerator that allows you to use your own application logic to route multiple users to a specific Amazon EC2 destination, while still leveraging the benefits of Global Accelerator. Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves your internet user performance and availability by […]