Networking & Content Delivery

Category: AWS VPN

Setting up of AWS Site-to-Site VPN automated monitoring solution

In today’s interconnected world, businesses of all sizes rely on secure and efficient network connectivity to operate seamlessly across multiple locations. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Site-to-Site Virtual Private Networks (Site-to-Site VPN) offer a reliable way to extend a private network across public infrastructure such as the internet, enabling organizations to securely connect their offices, data centers, and Amazon Virtual […]

Networking best practices for generative AI on AWS

Introduction As generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) continues to evolve, the demand for more powerful and efficient computing resources grows, along with the need to manage exponentially increasing amounts of data. Datasets used for training generative AI models are typically measured in terabytes (TB), orders of magnitude bigger than traditional machine learning (ML) datasets whose […]

Integrating AWS Client VPN with AWS Network Firewall

Organizations use remote access solutions for secure remote user access to resources hosted on their internal networks. This post shows various deployment models to integrate AWS Network Firewall with AWS Client VPN. AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that secures access to your AWS resources, and resources in your on-premises network, over […]

AWS Client VPN and AWS Verified Access migration and interoperability patterns

In today’s workplace, your users need secure, authenticated remote connectivity to your applications. Until recently, many organizations took this requirement to mean “VPN connection.” AWS Client VPN, introduced in 2018, has provided AWS customers with a managed, OpenVPN-based VPN client solution for securing remote access to on-premises and AWS-hosted applications. AWS Verified Access, launched in […]

Using AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs to chargeback data processing costs in a multi-account environment

Many AWS customers use consolidated billing, and often need to allocate costs across their internal business units or accounts. This can be challenging when dealing with services that are shared by all accounts. For general chargebacks, some customers use cost allocation tags for this purpose. However, at the time of writing this post, there is […]

How Glovo migrated their self-managed VPN solution to AWS Client VPN

How Glovo migrated their self-managed VPN solution to AWS Client VPN In this blog post Glovo shares how they migrated their ~4000 TLS virtual private network (VPN) users from their self-managed OpenVPN Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) solution to AWS Client VPN by also integrating with OneLogin for authentication and authorization. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Client […]

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, […]

Introducing AWS Verified Access – General Availability

Introduction AWS Verified Access enables customers to provide VPN-less, secure access to their corporate applications. We released it as a preview during AWS re:Invent 2022. Today, we are happy to announce that this service is now generally available (GA). Built using AWS Zero Trust principles, customers can use Verified Access to reduce the risks associated […]

AWS Site-to-Site VPN, choosing the right options to optimize performance

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), […]

Design patterns for interconnecting a telco data center to an Amazon VPC

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 […]