Category: Management Tools

Selecting the right AWS private connectivity option is harder than it used to be. The choices now span AWS Direct Connect, AWS Direct Connect SiteLink, and AWS Interconnect (last mile and multicloud). Picking the wrong option can lead to over-provisioning, slow time to market, or rework. In this post, we present a decision framework for […]

Running an internet-facing application means estimating and managing costs across many services and features: content delivery, web application firewall (WAF), DNS, logging, and DDoS protection. Each has its own pricing model, its own metering, its own line item on the bill. Traffic from successful launches, organic growth, and AI bots can spike without warning, increasing […]

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, […]

AWS Direct Connect announces three new CloudWatch metrics for monitoring virtual interface BGP session health and prefix counts. Learn how to use VirtualInterfaceBgpStatus, VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesReceived, and VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAdvertised to detect BGP failures, prevent prefix limit violations, and validate disaster recovery architectures without custom Lambda functions or API polling.

In November 2025, we launched flat-rate pricing plans for Amazon CloudFront. Since launch, customers have shared feedback and we’ve been adding new capabilities. This post covers what’s new: support for Lambda@Edge, CAPTCHA, mutual TLS (mTLS), and an AI activity dashboard for visibility into AI bot and agent traffic. We’ve also clarified how plans handle traffic […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching flat-rate pricing plans with no overages for website delivery and security. The pricing plans, available with Amazon CloudFront, combine global content delivery (CDN) with multiple AWS services and features into a monthly price with no overage charges, regardless of whether your website or application goes viral or faces […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that can create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. A Site-to-Site VPN connection consists of two VPN tunnels for redundancy. As a managed service, Site-to-Site VPN periodically applies updates to your […]

In this post, we dive into how at Silverflow we adopted AWS Cloud WAN and how we used standard DevOps practices, to manage our global network in a compliant and secure way. At Silverflow, our mission to bring payments into the modern era also necessitated that we rethink our network from the ground up. Every […]

This post demonstrates how to use a new Amazon CloudWatch metric for Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints to make informed scaling decisions. We show you how to monitor Resolver Networking Interface (RNI) capacity and implement a scalable architecture that makes sure of reliable DNS resolution across your hybrid infrastructure. As organizations expand their hybrid cloud […]

AWS launched Network Flow Monitor at re:Invent on December 1st, 2024, a new Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring feature that offers network performance monitoring across AWS managed services. With Network Flow Monitor, you can get near real-time visibility into network traffic between compute resources (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon […]