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Secure hybrid access to Amazon S3 using AWS PrivateLink

AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 enables on-premises applications to privately and securely access Amazon S3 over AWS Direct Connect private virtual interface or AWS Site to Site VPN. The Interface VPC Endpoints for Amazon S3 allow security administrators to control which users can access which data in S3 from on premises and cross-Region using their […]

Test Automation of multicast IoT devices at Doppelio using IGMP v2 and the AWS Transit Gateway

Context IoT solutions today are both complex and business critical. At the same time, testing them thoroughly proves difficult because of the need to apply conditions of load, network, sensor behavior, and others. To address these, “Doppelio” – a SaaS-based IoT test automation solution was built as it helps alleviate IoT test limitations. It does […]

Join us for AWS Content Delivery Network Edge Week!

Upcoming Virtual Event Your customers expect low-latency, highly-available connectivity to your web applications all over the world, while your organization demands security, performance, and support at a reasonable cost. AWS CDN Edge Week is an online event series designed to help you navigate these business needs when building solutions in the evolving CDN edge. Join […]

Deployment models for AWS Network Firewall with VPC routing enhancements

Introduction Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated virtual network. It has inbuilt network security controls and implicit routing between VPC subnets by design. Network security controls such as security groups (SGs) and network access control lists (ACLs) provide you with options to control network traffic. However these controls operate at network and transport […]

Scale traffic using multiple Interface Endpoints

Update: As of January 27, 2022, AWS PrivateLink publishes data points to Amazon CloudWatch for your interface endpoints, Gateway Load Balancer endpoints, and endpoint services. CloudWatch enables you to retrieve statistics about those data points as an ordered set of time series data, known as metrics. As a PrivateLink Endpoint owner, you can use metrics […]

Celebrate 15 Years of Amazon EC2 with Twitch Livestream Events

When Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) launched in 2006, the world looked very different. Cellphones weren’t smart, and no one had even heard of an App Store. Fast forward 15 years, and the world has become more digitized with many companies building their success by running secure, reliable, and scalable workloads in the cloud. Amazon […]

Analyze VPC Flow Logs with point-and-click Amazon Athena integration

Analyzing your VPC Flow Logs using Athena is now easier than ever! The recently introduced VPC Flow Logs integration with Amazon Athena helps you get started with extracting meaningful insights from VPC Flow Logs in just a few clicks. In this blog post, we will walk you through how you can use this recently announced […]

Resolve DNS names of Network Load Balancer nodes to limit cross-Zone traffic

Introduction Network Load Balancer (NLB), part of the Elastic Load Balancing Family, is the flagship Layer 4 load balancer for AWS. It offers elastic capacity, high performance, and integration with many other AWS services (such as Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling). NLB is designed to handle millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latency, improving […]

Best practices for deploying Gateway Load Balancer

Updated 03/04/2023: The following updates were made to this blog: Expanded the behavior of idle timeout to address TCP flow and UDP packets. Referenced price reduction announcement for inter-az charges Referenced enhancement made in target failover of the existing flows in GWLB Introduction At re:Invent 2020, we launched Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), a service that […]

New APIs and functionality for managing Amazon CloudFront CNAMEs

Today, Amazon CloudFront announced the release of two new APIs, ListConflictingAliases and AssociateAlias. These APIs are useful when you need to locate or move Alternate Domain Names (CNAMEs) when you encounter the CNAMEAlreadyExists error code. In addition, more use cases have been enabled when you are working with wildcard CNAMEs across accounts. Before diving into […]