Category: Networking & Content Delivery

Update: Sep 17, 2024 – Clarification added on supported listener types   This post guides you through configuring AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) idle timeouts for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) flows. NLB is part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Load Balancing family, operating at Layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. […]

In this post, we examine how Druva, a SaaS vendor offering cloud data protection and management solutions, implemented AWS PrivateLink to secure data transfers between Druva’s customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Druva virtual private cloud (VPC). PrivateLink establishes private connectivity between VPCs, Amazon hosted services, and on-premises networks using VPC endpoints. This provides […]

Application owners often rely on content management systems (CMS) to publish and manage content on their websites. WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system. Originally launched as a blogging platform back in 2003, WordPress now powers 43% of all websites and controls a massive 64.3% of the known CMS market. The purpose of this […]

Introduction Large enterprises have a centralized networking team for configuring and managing baseline DNS settings across a multi-account, multi-VPC environment. Amazon Route 53 Profiles provides an ability to simplify management of DNS configuration across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts. Before this feature, users needed to perform the association of Private Hosted Zones (PHZ) and Route […]

At AWS, security is the top priority, and we are committed to providing you with the necessary guidance to fortify the security posture of your environment. In 2018, we introduced built-in authentication support for Application Load Balancers (ALBs), enabling secure user authentication as they access applications. This feature allows developers to offload the authentication responsibility […]

As organizations expand their cloud footprint, IP address management and planning grow increasingly complex. Without the ability to easily understand IP resources across the enterprise, network management tasks supporting business needs such as expansions, mergers, acquisitions, and service discontinuations can be time-consuming and challenging. For those critical networking tasks, a visualized map of your entire […]

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 […]

As governments seek to improve security and safety in public places, video surveillance in the public sector is a rapidly growing technology. Video surveillance is increasingly being used in public places such as airports, train stations, public transportation, schools, and government buildings. Governments all over the world aim to put in place various measures to […]

An increasing number of organizations are adopting IPv6 in their environments, driven by government mandates, public IPv4 space exhaustion, and private IPv4 scarcity. To accommodate for workload growth, integrate new business needs (for example, mergers and acquisitions), expand into other regions, and increase developer productivity, you need to design and implement a scalable, extensible, and […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has found widespread adoption in the satellite communication and aerospace sectors, serving not only as a platform for modernizing their overall IT infrastructure but also for delivering network connectivity solutions. One prominent example showcases how a leading satellite and aerospace company, Thales Avionics, used AWS to build a virtual data center […]