Category: Technical How-to

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 […]

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 […]

From startups to enterprises, thousands of software as a service (SaaS) solutions harness the power of Amazon CloudFront to secure, scale, and accelerate their applications globally. Building on over 16 years of innovation, we are introducing Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager, a long-awaited capability for CloudFront customers. CloudFront SaaS Manager revolutionizes how platform providers manage multi-domain […]

AWS Cloud WAN is a managed wide area networking (WAN) service that helps you build, manage, and monitor a unified global network connecting cloud and on-premises resources. In 2024, we launched service insertion, an AWS Cloud WAN feature that streamlines integrating security and inspection services into global networks. Using AWS Network Manager console or JSON policies, […]

Are you interested in securing your web applications and optimizing their performance to maintain a seamless user experience and safeguard against cyber threats? Application Load Balancers (ALBs) provide a powerful feature for modifying request and response headers, allowing you to fine-tune your application’s behavior in numerous ways. From bolstering security with essential headers such as […]

In this post we explore how you can use AWS Cloud WAN Connect with Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Tunnels and Multi-protocol BGP (MP-BGP) for Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing of IPv6 networks. We also cover route verification and failover testing best practices. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are increasingly adopting IPv6 and Software-Defined Wide […]

Information security practitioners use internet protocol (IP) address-based security controls such as block lists and rate-based rules to block malicious traffic. However, blocking malicious traffic solely based on an IP address can unintentionally block legitimate users, resulting in false positives. This is because many users share an IP address behind a network address translation (NAT) […]

Learn when and why LCU Reservation should be used and how to get started

In today’s world, organizations are increasingly looking to migrate their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud to take advantage of scalability, cost-effectiveness, and agility offered by cloud. One critical component of many enterprise architectures is the load balancer, which distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers. If you’re considering migrating your on-premise hardware load balancers to AWS, it’s […]

This post was co-authored by: George Oakes, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect; Wafa Adeel, Senior Product Manager; and Devin Taylor, Senior Software Engineer Overview AWS PrivateLink offers a secure and simple way of sharing and accessing services across VPCs and accounts. All traffic stays on AWS network without going over the public internet. Until now the […]