Category: Best Practices

Introduction AWS Cloud WAN enables organizations to build and manage a global network across multiple AWS Regions. Through AWS Cloud WAN service insertion, you can integrate security appliances, either AWS-managed (such as AWS Network Firewall) or third-party solutions, to inspect and control traffic between network segments or outbound to the internet. Although AWS Cloud WAN […]

In late 2024 we launched several enhancements to AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN services: Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) support for Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN Appliance Mode Routing Enhancement for improved Availability Zone (AZ) awareness Per-AZ Amazon CloudWatch Metrics AWS Cloud WAN: Service Insertion Operational Enhancement In this post, we explain how […]

This blog is co-authored with Jenny Zhou, Principal Enterprise Architect at United Airlines In this blog, we will explore how United Airlines implemented an enterprise-wide resilience program using Amazon Web Services (AWS). United Airlines, a major U.S. airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, announced its United Next plan in 2021. United Next is the airline’s plan […]

Applications face a variety of security threats, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, web application exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), and bot traffic. In this post, to help protect your applications against these threats, we demonstrate how to build your first web access control list (web ACL) in AWS WAF. AWS […]

Introduction In today’s multi-cloud landscape, organizations face significant challenges in network configuration and resource management. Traditional tools often need deep, tool-specific knowledge, which leads to increased deployment times and configuration errors. The AWS Cloud Control API addresses these common cloud management challenges by providing a unified, language-agnostic interface for resource management. It offers immediate access […]

Introduction Today Amazon Web Services (AWS) is enhancing subnet management capabilities of Network Load Balancer (NLB). NLBs were previously restricted to only adding subnets in new Availability Zones (AZs), and they now support full subnet management, including removal of subnets, matching the capabilities of Application Load Balancer (ALB). This enhancement offers organizations greater control over […]

In today’s world, organizations are increasingly looking to migrate their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud to take advantage of scalability, cost-effectiveness, and agility offered by cloud. One critical component of many enterprise architectures is the load balancer, which distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers. If you’re considering migrating your on-premise hardware load balancers to AWS, it’s […]

Network incidents can occur at times that may impact latency in AWS Regions , Availability Zones (AZs), and individual infrastructure components, such as server hardware. Users can also experience more latency because of the introduction of network appliances in their traffic path. This post explains some of the best practices that allow you to identify […]

Configuring Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal autoshift observer notifications can be an enabler on your journey to architecting and operating resilient workloads on AWS, a key focus of the reliability pillar of AWS Well-Architected. AWS provides an array of design principles and services to guide users in building highly available and fault-tolerant architectures. A […]

This post was co-authored by: George Oakes, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect; Wafa Adeel, Senior Product Manager; and Devin Taylor, Senior Software Engineer Overview AWS PrivateLink offers a secure and simple way of sharing and accessing services across VPCs and accounts. All traffic stays on AWS network without going over the public internet. Until now the […]