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SaaS providers can use Bring Your Own ASN (BYOASN) on AWS Direct Connect public VIFs to assign a distinct ASN per Region, giving end customers a standard BGP AS_PATH signal to enforce data sovereignty without relying on fragile per-Region prefix lists.

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 […]

Customers frequently use on-premises DNS infrastructure to resolve DNS queries for internal domains. In 2018, we announced Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints, which enable customers to integrate Route 53 with their on-premises DNS infrastructure for hybrid DNS resolution. In 2023, we improved this integration by providing customers the ability to encrypt DNS queries and responses […]

While website performance issues are a common occurrence, pinpointing their root causes can be a challenging task. In this post, you will learn how to simplify the performance troubleshooting process by unlocking the potential of the Server-Timing header. This header allows backend components to communicate timing metrics and other insights relevant to performance monitoring in […]

AWS Cloud WAN is a managed wide-area networking (WAN) service that you can use to build and operate wide area networks that connect your data centers and branch offices, as well as your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) VPCs. You can use network policies to centrally configure and automate network management and security tasks, […]

AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build and operate wide area networks that connect your data centers and branch offices, as well as your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). With Cloud WAN, you connect to AWS through your choice of local network providers, then use a central dashboard and network policies to create a […]

Update: As of June 11 2024, the Service Insertion feature of AWS Cloud WAN allows users to easily insert firewalls and other security solutions into the traffic flow within a Cloud WAN environment. Rather than manually configuring the underlying routing required to insert these security services, as described in this blog, Service Insertion provides a managed offering that handles this […]

AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully-managed performant, scalable, secure, and highly-available way to connect your on-premises users and workloads to AWS. When using Site-to-Site VPN you can connect to both Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) with two tunnels per connection for increased redundancy. For even greater performance with sites further from your AWS Region(s), […]

Many customers ask us how they can point their zone apex to their web content if it uses a DNS name rather than an IP address. This blog covers three design patterns and approaches that solve zone apex challenges with third-party DNS providers for applications hosted in AWS—and the pros and cons of each approach.