Category: Announcements

AWS and Lumen simplify enterprise cloud connectivity with AWS Interconnect – last mile and Lumen Cloud Interconnect This post was jointly written by Rob Kennedy, Vice President of Network Services, Amazon Web Services, and Scott Yow, Senior Vice President of Product, Lumen Technologies For decades, the cloud and the network connecting to it have operated […]

We recently announced that the AWS Load Balancer Controller now supports AWS Global Accelerator through a new declarative Kubernetes API. This integration brings the power of AWS’s global network infrastructure directly into your Kubernetes workflows, enabling improved application performance by up to 60% for users worldwide, all without leaving your Kubernetes environment. AWS Global Accelerator […]

Written by Andrew DeVore, Vice President & Associate General Counsel, AWS. Since we pioneered cloud computing in 2006, AWS has been committed to giving customers the freedom to choose the technologies that best meet their needs. Whether that means using AWS services exclusively, combining multiple cloud providers, or moving workloads to on-premises infrastructure, we believe customers […]

AWS Direct Connect announces three new CloudWatch metrics for monitoring virtual interface BGP session health and prefix counts. Learn how to use VirtualInterfaceBgpStatus, VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesReceived, and VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAdvertised to detect BGP failures, prevent prefix limit violations, and validate disaster recovery architectures without custom Lambda functions or API polling.

In November 2025, we launched flat-rate pricing plans for Amazon CloudFront. Since launch, customers have shared feedback and we’ve been adding new capabilities. This post covers what’s new: support for Lambda@Edge, CAPTCHA, mutual TLS (mTLS), and an AI activity dashboard for visibility into AI bot and agent traffic. We’ve also clarified how plans handle traffic […]

As organizations increasingly adopt multicloud architectures, the need for interoperability between cloud service providers has never been greater. Historically, however, connecting these environments has been a challenge, forcing customers to take a complex “do-it-yourself” approach to managing global multi-layered networks at scale. To address these challenges and advance a more open cloud environment, Amazon Web […]

Note: Dec 4, 2025 – expanded with additional section on application networking integrations. Customers who control access out of their AWS environments using self-managed proxies often find it challenging to deploy, scale, and patch their EC2 or container-based proxy fleets. With the recent launch of AWS Network Firewall proxy preview, AWS is taking over the […]

Today AWS announced Flexible Cost Allocation (FCA) for AWS Transit Gateway, a capability that gives you granular control over how Transit Gateway data processing costs are allocated across AWS accounts, including member accounts within AWS Organizations. With FCA, you configure metering policies for your Transit Gateway that allows you the flexibility to allocate charges to […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is working with eero to make it simpler and more convenient for organizations to establish secure connectivity between their remote sites and AWS in just a few clicks. The integration of AWS Site-to-Site VPN with eero’s devices enables organizations to scale site connectivity across many locations faster and more efficient, without requiring […]

AWS Application Load Balancer is an HTTP request load balancer designed to provide scalability through load distribution and high availability through target health detection and unhealthy target isolation. Today, we are excited to introduce ALB Target Optimizer, a powerful new feature through which ALB delivers optimal concurrency to each target. In this post, we will […]