Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Technical How-to
Enhancing Pinterest’s organizational security with a DNS firewall: Part 1
This post was authored by Ali Yousefi, Senior Security Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Security Team at Pinterest Introduction Network security has become an increasingly important focus area in cloud security as more organizations shift to the cloud. Organizations can take an active approach in protecting themselves and their data from various threats by strengthening […]
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, […]
Using generative AI for building AWS networks
In today’s rapidly evolving cloud landscape, network architects, engineers, and cloud teams need to move faster to design, deploy, and manage complex Amazon Web Services (AWS) networking infrastructure at scale. The emergence of generative AI capabilities, particularly Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, offers unprecedented opportunities to transform how we approach these challenges and solve them […]
Amazon VPC Lattice support for RDS Multi-AZ
In this post we review how Amazon VPC Lattice can provide simple and secure access to an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment using Amazon Resource Names (ARNs). Prerequisites We assume you are familiar with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and VPC Lattice concepts and capabilities. If you are unfamiliar with VPC Lattice please review Amazon VPC […]
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 […]
Design and build IPv6 internet inspection architectures on AWS
As organizations increasingly adopt IPv6 to address public IPv4 exhaustion, private IPv4 scarcity—especially in large-scale networks—and the need to support IPv6-only clients, securing both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic becomes critical. We can apply consistent traffic inspection for inbound and outbound flows in Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) to maintain security. In this post, we […]
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 […]
CORS configuration through Amazon CloudFront
Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a security feature implemented by web browsers that controls which web pages or web applications are allowed to make requests to a different domain or origin. In other words, CORS is a mechanism that prevents a web page hosted on one domain from making requests for resources from a different […]
Introducing Amazon Route 53 authoritative DNS service for public hosted zones in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Route 53 authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) service for public hosted zones in AWS GovCloud (US). You can now create and manage public hosted zones in AWS GovCloud (US) to manage DNS for internet-facing applications and create alias records with targets to AWS services such […]









