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Introducing AWS Site-to-Site VPN 5 Gbps Tunnels to support high throughput workloads

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports VPN connections with up to 5 Gbps bandwidth per tunnel, a 4x improvement from existing limit of 1.25 Gbps. This increased bandwidth benefits customers who require high-capacity connections for bandwidth-intensive hybrid applications, big data migrations, and disaster recovery architectures. AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that allows you […]

Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources

Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources

Amazon VPC Lattice is a fully managed application networking service that lets you connect, secure, and monitor communication between your services and resources within and across VPCs and accounts. Today, we announce custom domain names for Lattice resources. In this post, we will examine this feature in detail. Resource owners can now specify an Fully […]

Introducing cross-account support for Amazon CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins

In November 2024, Amazon CloudFront introduced CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, a security feature that allowed customers to deliver content from applications hosted in private subnets. In addition, we are now introducing cross-account support for Amazon CloudFront VPC origins, enabling network traffic flow between Amazon CloudFront and Application Load Balancers (ALBs), Network Load Balancers […]

Configuring the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group for your resources and clients

Users wanting to protect themselves from Layer 7 (HTTP) DDoS threats can use the AWS WAF L7 Anti-DDoS managed rule group to detect and mitigate DDoS events in single digit seconds. The Anti-DDoS managed rule group has a default configuration that is appropriate for many applications and clients. However, there are clients that need special […]

Introducing URL and host header rewrite with AWS Application Load Balancers

Today we’re announcing the general availability of rewriting URLs and host headers natively on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Application Load Balancers (ALB). You can use this new feature to implement regex matches based on request parameters and rewrite both host headers and URLs before routing to your targets. Operating at Layer 7 (application layer) of […]

How Silverflow modernized network operations by combining AWS Cloud WAN and DevOps

In this post, we dive into how at Silverflow we adopted AWS Cloud WAN and how we used standard DevOps practices, to manage our global network in a compliant and secure way. At Silverflow, our mission to bring payments into the modern era also necessitated that we rethink our network from the ground up. Every […]

Secure customer resource access in multi-tenant SaaS with Amazon VPC Lattice

In this post, we provide prescriptive guidance for building resilient and scalable multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) network architectures to address common challenges such as managing overlapping IP addresses, complex CIDR planning, and scaling connectivity to thousands of customers. We explore multiple architectural approaches using Amazon VPC Lattice with TCP resources, and conclude with detailed implementation guidance […]

Building a high-performance exchange market data broadcasting platform on AWS

This is a joint post co-authored with Abhishek Chawla, Chief Product and Technology Officer; Kartik Manimuthu, Director of Cloud Engineering; and Digvijay, Director of Application Engineering at SMC Global Securities Ltd. SMC Global Securities Ltd. (SMC), established in 1990, is a leading Indian financial services company providing trading, wealth advisory, and financial product distribution services […]

Amazon CloudFront now supports IPv6 origins for end-to-end IPv6 delivery

Amazon CloudFront now supports IPv6 origins for end-to-end IPv6 delivery

IPv6 adoption continues to accelerate worldwide as organizations move beyond the limitations of IPv4 address space. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’ve long supported IPv6 from end users to our Amazon CloudFront network, helping end users reduce latency, improve performance, and reach on modern mobile networks. Now, we are excited to take it a step […]

Protect your Amazon Route 53 DNS zones and records

Amazon Route 53 powers mission-critical DNS services for millions of applications worldwide, and protecting your DNS infrastructure is an important step for securing your applications.. An unintended DNS configuration change or deletion can disrupt the availability of your applications and impact your business operations causing lost revenue and more. To help safeguard your DNS from […]