Category: Gateway Load Balancer

The Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) service launched with support from the partner network. These partners provide networking appliances that enable customers to perform varying levels of packet inspection on flows that pass through them, taking action as necessary and as defined within their configuration. For a list of partners that support GWLB, refer to the […]

As of September 5, 2024, GWLB allows you to configure the GWLB transmission control protocol (TCP) idle timeout from 60 seconds to 6000 seconds. And, GWLB uses either a 2-tuple, 3-tuple, or a 5-tuple hash to define a flow and routes all packets of a flow to one of its backend targets. Refer to the […]

In our conversations with customers, we are often asked about the best way to architect centralized inspection architectures. Since the launch of AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), those discussions increasingly revolve around how to use AWS Transit Gateway, Gateway Load Balancer and Gateway Load Balancer Endpoints (GWLBE) together. In this post, we explain how to […]

We recently launched AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), a new service that helps customers deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual network appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, analytics, visibility and others. A new addition to the Elastic Load Balancer family, AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) combines a transparent network gateway (that is, […]

Updated “Cross-zone load balancing and appliance failures” section on 25th March, 2021 Organizations use next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) as part of their defense in depth strategy. In an on-premises network, these often take the form of dedicated hardware or software or virtual “appliances.” As companies move to the cloud, they want […]

Customers often ask me how they can maintain consistent policies and practices as they move to the cloud, especially as it relates to using the network appliances. They trust third-party hardware and software appliances to protect and monitor their on-premises traffic, but traditional appliance deployment models are not always well suited to the cloud. Last […]