Networking & Content Delivery

Category: Best Practices

Improve Single-Page Application (SPA) Performance with a Same Domain policy using Amazon CloudFront

In this post, we demonstrate how you can use a same domain policy with Amazon CloudFront. Using this method, you eliminate the need for enabling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which results in improved performance for Single-Page Applications (SPA). Over the years, SPA frameworks such as ReactJs and AngularJs have become a popular method for developing […]

Best practices and considerations to migrate from VPC Peering to AWS Transit Gateway

This post presents recommendations and best practices when migrating your existing VPCs from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering to AWS Transit Gateway. It includes a migration walkthrough and considerations that you can address to improve your odds of a seamless migration. This post also details common networking testing and bench-marking tools such as iPerf […]

Connecting VPCs securely and at scale

Connecting VPCs securely and at scale to 3rd party public services in on-premises networks

There are many things to consider when connecting your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) to third-party applications running in data centers outside AWS. You need connections that are secure and scalable, especially when the third-party vendor uses a multi-tenant architecture. With multi-tenant services, where they have many of their customers sharing the same system, […]

Choosing the right health check with Elastic Load Balancing and EC2 Auto Scaling

Customers frequently use Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancers and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASG) to build scalable, resilient workloads. When configured correctly, Amazon ELB health checks help make your workload more resilient to failures in your workload components behind the load balancer. However, you may need to make tradeoffs for handling different failure […]

Accelerate, protect and make dynamic workloads delivery cost efficient with Amazon CloudFront

Whether you’re serving dynamic content from an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (Amazon ELB), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon API Gateway, or AWS Lambda to the end users on the Internet, you can improve the performance and security, and optimize the cost of your content delivery by using Amazon CloudFront as your content delivery network (CDN). […]

Migrating sub 1 Gbps hosted connection to use AWS Transit Gateway – Part 1

Introduction This blog will describe the recommended migration approach for migrating existing hybrid connectivity architectures with sub 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect hosted connections to AWS Transit Gateway. It will provide you with a target architecture along with step-by-step prescriptive guidance on how to migrate from your existing state. Key benefits you can derive from […]

Migrating sub 1 Gbps hosted connection to use AWS Transit Gateway – Part 2

Introduction Since the launch of AWS Transit Gateway, customers have been asking to use transit virtual interface (Transit VIF) on sub 1 Gbps AWS Direct Connect hosted connections. In this post, we describe how to migrate an existing environment that uses sub 1Gbps Direct Connect hosted connections, Transit Gateway, and transit VPC for hybrid connectivity. […]

Optimize SEO with Amazon CloudFront

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of optimizing your website to rank higher on search engine results pages. Since organic search is a primary way for viewers to discover online content, a solid SEO strategy involves optimizing your web application and maintaining good performance. As more than 92% of the internet searches happen on […]

Monitoring load balancers using Amazon CloudWatch anomaly detection alarms

Load balancers are a critical component in the architecture of distributed software services. AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) provides highly performant automatic distribution for any scale of incoming traffic across many compute targets (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Lambda, etc.), while enabling developers to adopt security best practices […]

Centralizing outbound Internet traffic for dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 VPCs

Organizations have been adopting IPv6 in their IPv4 environments to solve IP address exhaustion or meet compliance requirements. Since IPv6 isn’t backward compatible with IPv4, several mechanisms can facilitate communication between hosts that support one or both protocols. One common way is by using dual stack deployments. For architectures where dual stack deployments aren’t the […]