Networking & Content Delivery

Category: Best Practices

Optimizing application performance: The strategic benefits of combining Amazon CloudFront with Application Load Balancers

As organizations scale globally, balancing user experience with operational costs becomes increasingly complex. Integrating Amazon CloudFront with Application Load Balancer (ALB) addresses this challenge by reducing latency by serving content from over 750 edge locations worldwide and maintaining persistent TCP connections between CloudFront and ALB origins while reducing Data Transfer Out (DTO) expenses through the […]

Implementing ingress geo-restriction with AWS to reduce attack surface

Geo-restriction is a critical security control for blocking traffic from high-risk regions. Learn how to implement geographic filtering using Amazon CloudFront, Route 53, AWS WAF, and AWS Network Firewall—and discover when to use each service for your specific architecture needs.

Scaling AWS VPN maintenance with tunnel endpoint lifecycle automation

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that can create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. A Site-to-Site VPN connection consists of two VPN tunnels for redundancy. As a managed service, Site-to-Site VPN periodically applies updates to your […]

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 […]

How to manage AI Bots with AWS WAF and enhance security

Introduction The first web crawler was created in 1993 to measure the size of web, and they have now evolved into modern bots powered by agentic AI. Today’s internet is increasingly populated and dominated by automated AI bots that interact with applications to support AI-related tasks. We classified AI bots into three types: AI scrapers, […]

Building secure multicloud access with AWS Client VPN and AWS Site-to-Site VPN

In today’s rapidly evolving cloud landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting multicloud strategies for several compelling reasons. Following mergers and acquisitions, companies need to integrate and maintain existing cloud solutions from both organizations. Different business units within an organization often have varying technical requirements and expertise, leading them to prefer specific cloud providers. For highly regulated […]

Addressing private IPv4 exhaustion with AWS Cloud WAN service insertion

In this post, we describe how you can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud WAN with service insertion to centralize your private NAT Gateways and PrivateLink to effectively and efficiently address private IPv4 exhaustion. We demonstrate how you can maximize the usage of available IP space while minimizing cost impact. Private IPv4 space, defined in […]

Enabling out-of-band management for third-party appliances in AWS Cloud WAN

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 […]