Networking & Content Delivery

Category: Technical How-to

Prevent VPN traffic leaks with Client VPN Route Enforcement in AWS Client VPN

Prevent VPN traffic leaks with Client VPN Route Enforcement in AWS Client VPN

Unintended traffic leaks are a real risk when you rely on remote connectivity to access cloud resources, so maintaining VPN routing integrity on connected devices is essential. When a device connects through a VPN, the administrator-defined routes instruct the operating system to direct specific traffic through the encrypted tunnel. However, those routes can be altered […]

Private AI agent with WebSocket streaming over CloudFront VPC Origins and the next generation of OpenSearch Serverless for knowledge retrieval

Reviewing partner contracts by hand is slow and repetitive, so teams want an AI agent to do the first pass. In the example used throughout this post, a company called Example Corp reviews incoming partner agreements against its own standard operating procedures. A partner uploads an agreement, the agent checks it against those procedures, and […]

Automating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtime

Automating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtime

Learn how to build a serverless automation that monitors VPC IP utilization and expands CIDR capacity within minutes. This solution uses AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and IPAM to detect IP exhaustion risk and add secondary CIDRs with new subnets automatically. Three operating modes support environments with full IPAM management, IPAM for subnets only, or no IPAM at all. Deploy with a single SAM command and configure through VPC tags.

Intelligent failover using AWS Lambda@Edge and Amazon DynamoDB

Modern applications increasingly require seamless user experiences and high availability, especially in scenarios where regional disruptions or outages could impact critical workloads. Businesses frequently face challenges when dynamically allocating users to specific endpoints or regions while providing persistent user-endpoint relationships and implementing robust failover mechanisms. To address these complex scenarios, this post describes a solution […]

Phased AWS Transit Gateway to AWS Cloud WAN Migration with Terraform and Network MCP Server

Phased AWS Transit Gateway to AWS Cloud WAN Migration with Terraform and Network MCP Server

Migrate from AWS Transit Gateway to AWS Cloud WAN across multiple Regions using a six-phase Terraform approach with AWS Network MCP Server validation

Intelligent VPN observability: Decoding AWS Site-to-Site VPN logs

When an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection degrades, you sift through hundreds of log entries, correlate Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) state transitions with Internet Key Exchange (IKE) phase changes and decide whether the cause is a prefix quota violation, an autonomous system (AS) path loop, or a hold timer expiry. That repetitive manual work prolongs recovery. […]

VPC resource gateways: Implementation patterns and use cases

VPC resource gateways: Implementation patterns and use cases

When you need to connect applications across Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) to services that don’t fit the traditional AWS PrivateLink provider-consumer model, you face complex networking challenges that VPC peering and AWS Transit Gateway alone can’t easily solve. This is especially true for overlapping IP spaces. You can now connect to services that […]

Extending SD-WAN Segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN – Part 2

Extending SD-WAN Segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN – Part 2

For organizations operating multi-tenant environments, regulated environments, or multiple business units, maintaining strict network segmentation between SD-WAN and AWS is essential for meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements. This is Part 2 of the two-part series on extending SD-WAN segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN. In Part 1, the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) based Connect attachment […]

Extending SD-WAN Segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN – Part 1

Extending SD-WAN Segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN – Part 1

For organizations operating multi-tenant environments, regulated environments, or multiple business units, maintaining strict network segmentation between SD-WAN and AWS is essential for meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements. Deploying SD-WAN virtual appliances and extending your segmentation through AWS Cloud WAN helps unify these segmented environments under a single, scalable global network. That said, segmentation is […]

Best practices for securing your IPv6 infrastructure on AWS using VPC Block Public Access

Best practices for securing your IPv6 infrastructure on AWS using VPC Block Public Access

Organizations often struggle with how to secure IPv6 network and application infrastructure on AWS based on what type of IPv6 addresses they are using. In this post, I cover the best practices and considerations for securing private IPv6 resources while maintaining the flexibility to adjust connectivity models as your infrastructure evolves. I also cover how […]