Category: Networking & Content Delivery

In today’s highly distributed and cloud-based IT environments, network monitoring has become crucial for organizations to maintain the health, performance, and security of their applications and infrastructure. However, as modern application architectures evolve, with multiple layers of abstraction and cloud-native services, many teams look for better ways to collect and use the high-quality network data […]

Customers use AWS WAF to protect their web applications and APIs. They typically use a mixture of managed rules and their own custom rules, and then tune them in order to prevent as much undesired traffic as possible from reaching their applications. This implementation and tuning exercise typically produces a web access control list (web ACL) that […]

Today, we are introducing support for security group referencing on AWS Transit Gateway. This new feature allows you to create inbound security rules that reference security groups defined in other Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) attached to a transit gateway within the same Amazon Web Services (AWS) Region. Outbound security rules referencing over Transit […]

This blog post is co-written by David Hocky from Comcast Corporation. This post explains how Comcast achieved faster time-to-market for new product launches, increased resiliency, and reduced operational overhead by using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect. Comcast is a global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms, to […]

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints are comprised of gateway and interface endpoints that enable users to privately access supported Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and VPC endpoint services powered by AWS PrivateLink. They offer several benefits for organizations looking to enhance their cloud infrastructure’s security, performance, and cost efficiency. In an earlier post, Reduce […]

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 […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide choice of networking services. While these services enable AWS to meet more customer needs around networking, that variety increases the number of available options to consider in making architectural decisions when designing AWS and hybrid networking infrastructure. Cost is one of the main factors that drive architectural decisions […]

Introduction Since its launch, AWS Cloud WAN has sparked a lot of interest from customers and has seen a number of enhancements. The latest is service insertion, a new capability that lets you easily insert AWS and third-party networking and security services onto AWS Cloud WAN using a central policy document. Using this feature, you […]

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers look to extend their Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks into the cloud. MPLS networks offer reliable and performance-optimized routes for data, making them a preferred choice for enterprise connectivity. AWS Direct Connect further enhances this by providing a dedicated network link from an organization’s on-premises networks to AWS. This […]

In today’s data-driven landscape, the efficient transfer of large datasets to and from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a critical piece of an enterprise’s cloud strategy. Common business use cases that need frequent transferring of large data sets include cloud-based data lakes that depend on receiving data from various sources. These sources often […]