Networking & Content Delivery

Category: Announcements

Using load balancer target group health thresholds to improve availability

Introduction AWS recently added features to our Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) that give you control over when they take measures to shift traffic between targets. In this blog, we will explore these new capabilities and review how you can use them to improve the availability and resiliency of your applications. Two types of Elastic Load […]

Lightning in a Bottle Festival 2023: DDR.Live deploys AWS Private 5G

In the world of live events, conferences, music festivals, and pop-ups, reliable connectivity has become an essential element in the success of any event. The ability to provide guests seamless interactions with a variety of technologies, such as Point of Sale (PoS), access control, ticketing, and check-in is crucial for events of all sizes. However, […]

Attach multiple IPs to a NAT Gateway to scale your egress traffic pattern

AWS NAT Gateway is a highly available and horizontally scalable Network Address Translation (NAT) service. AWS NAT Gateway allows resources in a private subnet to connect to target resources outside the subnet using the NAT Gateway’s IP address. These target resources can either be in the same VPC, a different VPC, on the internet, or […]

A sneak peek at the Network and Infrastructure Security track sessions for re:Inforce 2023

AWS re:Inforce is fast approaching, and this post can help you plan your agenda. AWS re:Inforce is a security conference where you can gain skills and learn about the latest solutions in cloud security, compliance, identity, and privacy. As a re:Inforce attendee, you will have access to hundreds of technical and non-technical sessions, an Expo featuring […]

Introducing AWS Verified Access – General Availability

Introduction AWS Verified Access enables customers to provide VPN-less, secure access to their corporate applications. We released it as a preview during AWS re:Invent 2022. Today, we are happy to announce that this service is now generally available (GA). Built using AWS Zero Trust principles, customers can use Verified Access to reduce the risks associated […]

New – Gateway Load Balancer support for IPv6

In 2020, we launched Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), allowing you to deploy in-line inspection and filtering of packets. Various customers are leveraging this service to implement firewalls, intrusion detection, and network monitoring appliances in a centralized location. The ability to use multiple GWLB endpoints installed in workload VPCs allows distributed access to these centralized inspection […]

Visualize and diagnose network reachability across AWS accounts using Reachability Analyzer

It is common to encounter network designs on AWS with resources that belong to multiple AWS accounts. For example, you may have several AWS accounts with Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in those accounts connected to an AWS Transit Gateway in a central networking account. You may need to determine or diagnose network reachability between AWS […]

Use CloudFront continuous deployment to safely validate CDN changes

Content delivery networks (CDN) like Amazon CloudFront are often the front door for users and devices to connect to websites or applications. A change to your CDN configuration could result in a complete outage with limited visibility into the cause of the issue. Today’s existing industry solutions for providing the testing of CDN configuration changes […]

Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer Target Failover for Existing Flows

Introduction: AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service that allows customers to insert third-party virtual appliances such as firewall, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), network observability and others, transparently into the traffic path. Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) are reverse proxies and traffic is routed […]

Introducing AWS Global Accelerator IPv6

We are excited to announce the availability of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for AWS Global Accelerator. IPv6 is a version of the Internet Protocol that uses a larger address space (128 bits). Moreover, it allows more IP addresses than its predecessor IPv4 (32 bits). IPv6 support lets you meet the requirements for IPv6 […]