Category: Announcements

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs helps you understand network traffic patterns on AWS by providing network telemetry data about the IP traffic flowing to and from ENIs in your VPC. It lets you perform numerous analytics tasks, such as diagnosing overly restrictive security group rules, monitoring traffic that is reaching an instance, […]

Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network that securely delivers applications, websites, videos, and APIs to viewers across the globe in milliseconds. Using CloudFront, customers can access different types of origin services to suit their use cases. One of the performant architectures customers adopt is to use Amazon S3 as the origin to host […]

We recently launched Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS PrivateLink. This feature publishes metrics for PrivateLink services and endpoints at 1-minute intervals at no cost to you. You can also use CloudWatch Contributor Insights to visualize usage against your PrivateLink services. This blog summarizes PrivateLink metrics, shows the metrics and filters in Amazon CloudWatch, and provides […]

Since the launch of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs in 2015, customers have utilized VPC Flow Logs to gain better visibility of network traffic patterns on AWS by providing network telemetry data regarding the IP traffic flowing to and from ENIs within a given VPC. As customers’ networks grew, customers began utilizing […]

Update 10/13/22: Added walkthrough with the AWS Management console and link to code in CDK and Terraform. One of the most common ways that customers connect securely to AWS from on premises is by using the AWS Site-to-Site VPN managed IPSec VPN solution. One key benefit our customers look for when using the service is […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Route 53 provides you with the ability to manage traffic to your public domains globally through a variety of routing types, including latency-based routing, geolocation, geoproximity, and weighted routing – all of which can be combined with DNS failover […]

Network architects need the ability to gain insights into real-time traffic between different resources within their VPCs. Since the announcement of VPC Traffic Mirroring in 2019, the VPC feature has provided this by copying network traffic from elastic networking interfaces (ENIs) on customer’s instances as source, and then sending the traffic to a destination target […]