Networking & Content Delivery
Category: Security
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 […]
Protect against bots with AWS WAF Challenge and CAPTCHA actions
Protecting against bot threats requires insights into the client environment beyond what is available through network-level characteristics of a request, such as TCP or HTTP payload signatures. AWS WAF uses CAPTCHA and Challenge actions to undertake a client-side interaction, whether on a mobile device or browser, to understand this client environment before they can be […]
Announcing Amazon Virtual Private Gateway Ingress Routing support for Gateway Load Balancer
Today, on 30th August 2023, AWS launched a new enhancement to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Ingress Routing feature. With this enhancement, customers can now specify a Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint (GWLBE) as the next-hop in the virtual private gateway (VGW) route table. This allows customers to inspect their traffic coming into AWS […]
NetDevSecOps to modernize AWS networking deployments
NetDevOps orchestrates and automates network changes to shorten the network delivery lifecycle, treats the network as code to allow for version control, and tests changes to make sure of quality and stability. This increased speed helps organizations better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market. The post NetDevOps: A modern approach to AWS […]
Limiting requests to a web application using a Gatekeeper Solution
Many types of organizations encounter DDOS attacks daily. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, is an attack pattern that generates fake traffic to overwhelm organisation’s properties (websites, APIs, applications, etc.) and make it unavailable to legitimate users. They majority of these attacks involve a huge burst of fake traffic that exhausts the application’s resources (Memory […]
How to enhance CloudFront origin security of on-premise web servers using third-party firewalls
This post provides a solution to enhance the Amazon CloudFront origin security of on-premises web servers by automating the AWS IP prefix update process for some network firewalls. CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds—all within […]
Secure and accelerate Drupal CMS with Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and Edge Functions
In this post, you’ll learn how to secure and accelerate the delivery of Drupal-based websites using Amazon CloudFront, AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF), and Amazon CloudFront Functions. CloudFront is a content delivery network service (CDN) offering improved security and acceleration of the content served through it. This is true for static cacheable content and […]
Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer Target Failover for Existing Flows
Introduction: AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is an Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service that allows customers to insert third-party virtual appliances such as firewall, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), network observability and others, transparently into the traffic path. Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) are reverse proxies and traffic is routed […]