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For organizations operating multi-tenant environments, regulated environments, or multiple business units, maintaining strict network segmentation between SD-WAN and AWS is essential for meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements. This is Part 2 of the two-part series on extending SD-WAN segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN. In Part 1, the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) based Connect attachment […]

For organizations operating multi-tenant environments, regulated environments, or multiple business units, maintaining strict network segmentation between SD-WAN and AWS is essential for meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements. Deploying SD-WAN virtual appliances and extending your segmentation through AWS Cloud WAN helps unify these segmented environments under a single, scalable global network. That said, segmentation is […]

Since the launch of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) in 2009, Amazon Web Service (AWS) customers of all sizes, regardless of the size or the complexity of their technical requirements, have utilized ELB as a fundamental service. The service continues to evolve with more deployment options like Network Load Balancers, Application Load Balancers, and Gateway Load […]

Private connectivity from AgentCore Gateway to your targets reduces compliance scope and simplifies auditing making it a common requirement in regulated environments. Whether your targets run inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), across AWS accounts, in other AWS Regions, on-premises, or in multicloud environments, you need connectivity patterns that keep traffic off the public internet […]

Introduction AWS Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN is a fully managed service that enables you to establish secure connections between your on-premises networks and AWS using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. When configuring these connections AWS Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN offers two routing options: static and dynamic routing with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). While static routing offers simplicity for […]

Introduction This post is intended for networking engineers and architects evaluating AWS VPN options (200-level content). It assumes familiarity with basic AWS networking concepts such as virtual private clouds (VPCs), virtual private gateways (VGWs), and transit gateways (TGWs). If you are new to AWS VPN, the AWS VPN User Guide provides foundational context. Organizations implementing […]

In this post, we explore architectural patterns for implementing centralized internet ingress with inspection using AWS Cloud WAN. We examine different design considerations and integration strategies with centralized internet egress while walking through practical examples and deployment scenarios. We demonstrate how to use the AWS Cloud WAN core networking capabilities alongside other AWS networking services […]

Your on-call engineer gets paged at 2 AM. A payment service in Workload Account cannot reach a shared database in Shared Services Account. The Amazon CloudWatch alarm fired eight minutes ago. The engineer starts by checking route tables across two accounts, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) attachment states, security group rules on both sides, […]

The Kubernetes SIG Network and Security Response Committee has announced that Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026. If your organization runs workloads on Kubernetes — whether on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed clusters on EC2, or hybrid environments — this upcoming change requires immediate planning and attention. This change impacts approximately […]

Introduction This post demonstrates how to migrate your Amazon CloudFront public origins to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) origins using different strategies. You can also use VPC origins with cross-accounts to support security-first architectures. When designing network architecture for CloudFront workloads, organizations must choose between centralized or distributed models. In a centralized architecture, a […]