Category: AWS Direct Connect

Introduction Since the launch of AWS Transit Gateway, customers have been asking to use transit virtual interface (Transit VIF) on sub 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect hosted connections. In this post, we describe how to migrate an existing environment that uses sub 1Gbps Direct Connect hosted connections, Transit Gateway, and transit VPC for hybrid connectivity. […]

Introduction This blog will describe the recommended migration approach for migrating existing hybrid connectivity architectures with sub 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect hosted connections to AWS Transit Gateway. It will provide you with a target architecture along with step-by-step prescriptive guidance on how to migrate from your existing state. Key benefits you can derive from […]

Customers often ask about hybrid security inspection architecture patterns for latency-sensitive applications, where they want to run their workloads inside of AWS Local Zones, to perform security inspection but without compromising latency. In this post, we share some hybrid inspection architectures with traffic flows, where both workloads and security inspection appliances run inside of the […]

In December 2019, we announced our first Local Zone in Los Angeles. As a refresher, AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage, database, and other AWS services close to large population, industry, and IT locations. Local Zones extend the capabilities of an AWS Region – what we called “parent” […]

Traditionally, communication service providers (CSPs) in the telecom industry have used a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) technique to segregate their data center (DC) networks per each network domains; for examples of domain such as Operation, Administration & Management (OAM), signaling, roaming, and user traffic networks. Each VRF domain in the data center must also […]

In this post, we’ll discuss the considerations, recommendations, and approach for migrating AWS accounts between AWS Organizations from a networking perspective. We’ll explain the behavior of AWS networking resources when AWS accounts are moved between Organizations. We’ll also analyze the behavior from different viewpoints including service availability, management and governance, as well as commercial and operations. […]

Update 10/13/22: Added walkthrough with the AWS Management console and link to code in CDK and Terraform. One of the most common ways that customers connect securely to AWS from on premises is by using the AWS Site-to-Site VPN managed IPSec VPN solution. One key benefit our customers look for when using the service is […]

Overview You can solve advanced network use-cases encountered by Service Providers extending AWS cloud hosted services to their customers. Doing this often requires advertising thousands of IP prefixes into the AWS cloud, while maintaining separation of unavoidable conflicting IP address space. This can be accomplished by increasing IP prefix advertisement and extending Virtual Routing and […]

Happy 2022 AWS Networking & Content Delivery enthusiasts! In December 2021, AWS hosted its 10th annual re:Invent conference. The Networking & Content Delivery team had 14 unique breakout sessions that were recorded and can be found on this playlist. In addition to these sessions, the Networking team had a leadership session presented by David Brown, […]

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. With the launch of a new AWS Direct Connect location in the NextDC S2 Sydney data center, you can now establish dedicated 100 Gbps and encrypted connections with resiliency across two Sydney locations. Equinix SY3, an existing location in Sydney, also […]