Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Amazon Route 53
Using latency-based routing with Amazon CloudFront for a multi-Region active-active architecture
An update was made on April 11th, 2024, outlining deployment procedure. This post guides you through setting up the networking layer for a multi-Region active-active application architecture on AWS using latency-based routing in Amazon Route 53 with Amazon CloudFront to deliver a low-latency, reliable experience for your users. Building active-active architectures using AWS networking services improves […]
How to optimize DNS for dual-stack networks
Public IPv4 addresses have been a scarce resource going all the way back to 2011, when the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) distributed the last block of unallocated public IPv4 addresses. Alongside, the private IPv4 range carved out by RFC1918 has also been too small for large networks and deployments, like containers that consume a […]
Orchestrate disaster recovery automation using Amazon Route 53 ARC and AWS Step Functions
Note: To learn more about Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC), we recommend you read Part 1 and Part 2 of the series, and try out the examples. It demonstrates how the ARC service allows you to coordinate failovers and the recovery readiness of your application. In this blog post, we provide […]
Managing global AWS Local Zones applications with Amazon Route 53 Geoproximity routing
In an earlier post, we discussed how the hub-and-spoke architecture introduced by Local Zones unlocks more choices than ever for geographies where lower latency access can be introduced. Through workload placement techniques offered by service mesh technology for “east-west traffic”, inter-service communication within a customer’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), customers can make sure that microservice […]
Cross-account support in Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller
This blog post describes how to implement cross-account sharing for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC), by using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). The post walks through setting up a resource share, highlights the benefits of cross-account sharing, and reviews the factors to consider when you set up resource sharing in […]
How to boost the performance and security of your dynamic websites with AWS edge services in a few steps
Customers use AWS edge services to improve the performance and the security of their websites. In certain cases, they appreciate being able to quickly set up a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to stop a DDoS attack targeting their website, or to decrease page load times. And they prefer doing […]
Introducing dual-stack and IPv6-only support for Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints
Organizations are adopting IPv6 because of public IPv4 address and private IPv4 address (RFC1918) space exhaustion caused by the ongoing growth of the internet, particularly in the fields of mobile applications, Internet of Things (IoT), and application modernization. This is motivating many AWS customers to transition from IPv4-only to dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) and IPv6-only […]
Benefits of Domain Registration with Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53 Domains is a domain registration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is a component of the larger Route 53 service, which is AWS’s scalable and highly reliable DNS service. As a developer-centric registrar, Route 53 Domains differentiates itself by catering to the needs of developers and cloud engineers. It does […]
Securing Amazon API Gateway with secure ciphers using Amazon CloudFront
Enterprise customers have differing requirements based on a number of reasons including security, compliance, governance, and the industry they operate. In certain situations, customers are expected to adhere to certain protocols and standards that are non-negotiable. In this post, we explore how customers can specify TLS protocols and associated ciphers that are allowed from viewers […]
Choosing the right health check with Elastic Load Balancing and EC2 Auto Scaling
Customers frequently use Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancers and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASG) to build scalable, resilient workloads. When configured correctly, Amazon ELB health checks help make your workload more resilient to failures in your workload components behind the load balancer. However, you may need to make tradeoffs for handling different failure […]