Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
Securing PartyRock: How we protect Amazon Bedrock endpoints using AWS WAF
PartyRock is an intuitive, hands-on generative AI app-building playground based on Amazon Bedrock. It allows users to experiment with generative AI technologies and build fun applications without coding, such as quiz generators or resume optimizers. Although providing a free generative AI playground online offers immense value to builders, it also presents significant security challenges. In […]
Improving security and performance with additional DNS resource record types in Amazon Route 53
DNS is a key component of modern computing, a phone book for IP addresses. It is distinct from other protocols in the application stack. Because it is queried early in the request by a client, DNS is well suited to relay application-specific information back to a client as early as possible. This additional data can […]
Optimizing web application user experiences with AWS WAF JavaScript integrations
AWS WAF Bot Control uses CAPTCHA and Challenge actions to undertake a browser interaction before permitting requests to protected resources. These actions can result in a poor user experience because of application errors or unexpected CAPTCHA completion when AWS WAF unexpectedly blocks requests. The AWS WAF JavaScript integrations give you the ability to control these […]
Unlock self-service, enterprise-grade VPC capabilities with seamless integrations
Introduction Defining and provisioning standardized virtual private cloud (VPC) patterns across an enterprise poses several challenges for many customers. These challenges include ensuring self-service capabilities, meeting security and compliance requirements, and maintaining adherence to those requirements. Traditionally, when an application team wants to provision a VPC in their workload account, it is requested through a […]
How to dynamically adapt your response to changing threat levels using AWS WAF
Customers use AWS WAF to protect their web applications and APIs. They typically use a mixture of managed rules and their own custom rules, and then tune them in order to prevent as much undesired traffic as possible from reaching their applications. This implementation and tuning exercise typically produces a web access control list (web ACL) that […]
Introducing security group referencing for AWS Transit Gateway
Today, we are introducing support for security group referencing on AWS Transit Gateway. This new feature allows you to create inbound security rules that reference security groups defined in other Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) attached to a transit gateway within the same Amazon Web Services (AWS) Region. Outbound security rules referencing over Transit […]
Estimate AWS networking costs with a self-hosted calculator
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide choice of networking services. While these services enable AWS to meet more customer needs around networking, that variety increases the number of available options to consider in making architectural decisions when designing AWS and hybrid networking infrastructure. Cost is one of the main factors that drive architectural decisions […]
Secure and accelerate your WordPress CMS with Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and edge functions
Application owners often rely on content management systems (CMS) to publish and manage content on their websites. WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system. Originally launched as a blogging platform back in 2003, WordPress now powers 43% of all websites and controls a massive 64.3% of the known CMS market. The purpose of this […]
Security best practices when using ALB authentication
At AWS, security is the top priority, and we are committed to providing you with the necessary guidance to fortify the security posture of your environment. In 2018, we introduced built-in authentication support for Application Load Balancers (ALBs), enabling secure user authentication as they access applications. This feature allows developers to offload the authentication responsibility […]
Integrating AWS Client VPN with AWS Network Firewall
Organizations use remote access solutions for secure remote user access to resources hosted on their internal networks. This post shows various deployment models to integrate AWS Network Firewall with AWS Client VPN. AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that secures access to your AWS resources, and resources in your on-premises network, over […]