Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Management Tools
Unlock self-service, enterprise-grade VPC capabilities with seamless integrations
Introduction Defining and provisioning standardized virtual private cloud (VPC) patterns across an enterprise poses several challenges for many customers. These challenges include ensuring self-service capabilities, meeting security and compliance requirements, and maintaining adherence to those requirements. Traditionally, when an application team wants to provision a VPC in their workload account, it is requested through a […]
How to identify website performance bottlenecks by measuring time to first byte latency and using Server-Timing header
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 […]
How to monitor internet traffic to CloudFront edge in one click with Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a streamlined solution for you to monitor internet traffic to your CloudFront distribution with simple integration for Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor in the Amazon CloudFront console. Ensuring optimal performance and availability is paramount for internet applications. With this integration, you can easily gain more insights into internet health and your users’ experience for an application that you’ve set up with a CloudFront distribution.
Scaling strategies for Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) offers four types of load balancers, all featuring high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security support for your applications: Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), and Classic Load Balancer (CLB). ELB automatically scales up and down, and scales in and out in response to traffic […]
Monitor hybrid connectivity with Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor
Today we announce the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor, a feature of CloudWatch that makes it easy to gain visibility of your hybrid network connectivity with AWS. CloudWatch Network monitor currently supports hybrid monitors for networking built with AWS Direct Connect and AWS Site-to-Site VPN. You can find Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor in the Amazon CloudWatch […]
Prepare and run performance tests for Amazon Cloudfront with Real User Monitoring
This blog post is written by Tanya Pahuja and Sumit Bhardwaj, Technical Account Managers – AWS Enterprise Support, with Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS For consumer-facing websites and mobile apps, the speed at which the content loads on the user’s screens directly impacts the user’s browsing experience and the success of your business. If […]
Optimizing AdTech end-user experiences Using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor
In this blog post, we will explain how you can leverage Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor to monitor internet conditions continuously to ensure optimal ad workflow and delivery. In the realm of digital programmatic advertising (AdTech), various platforms such as supply-side platforms, ad exchanges, demand-side platforms, data & customer management platforms, and others collaborate to assist […]
Deploying Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) using AWS Service Catalog
Planning, tracking, and monitoring IP addresses for large-scale networks can challenging. Network Administrators often use a combination of spreadsheets, confluence pages, and home-grown tools to track IP address assignments across Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs), AWS Regions, and AWS accounts. However, these methods are largely manual and prone to errors, and even a minor […]
Set up end-to-end tracing with Amazon CloudFront using OpenTelemetry
In a modern distributed system, identifying where a problem has occurred is not a trivial task. In fact, it’s a key capability that an organization must master to maintain its competitiveness. Tracing is a great methodology to be used for this purpose. It creates a series of formatted logs with an identifier called Trace ID, which […]
Improving Performance on AWS and Hybrid Networks
In this post, we provide recommendations to improve network performance on AWS and hybrid networks. In today’s enterprise networking environment, it is becoming common for customers to have multi-gigabit connectivity to AWS either through AWS Direct Connect or over the Internet. Although network bandwidth is fundamental, several other factors come into play for network performance, […]