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AWS announced the launch of accelerated recovery for managing public Domain Name System (DNS) records, a new Amazon Route 53 feature that targets a 60-minute Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for your DNS operations in the unlikely event of service disruptions in the N. Virginia Region (us-east-1). This feature ensures continuity for your critical workloads by […]

Before you head into the Thanksgiving holiday, take a moment to read through this guide and start planning your AWS Networking re:Invent journey! From December 1st to December 5th, Las Vegas, Nevada will transform into the ultimate destination for cloud innovation, making it the perfect time to look ahead to the one of the most […]

This blog was co-authored by Manchun Yao, Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc. Snapchat is a popular app used by hundreds of millions of people around the world to communicate with their close friends and family. Snapchat’s focus is on enabling a fast and fun way to communicate by building features such as augmented reality […]

Starting today, Amazon CloudFront supports viewer mTLS authentication from end users to CloudFront, enhancing security for highly distributed and sensitive applications. In modern architectures, securing client-server communication necessitates more than standard TLS, and mTLS extends this model by enforcing bidirectional authentication. This makes sure that both the client and the server verify each other’s identity […]

In our previous post on demystifying Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Transfer services, we discussed how we designed our global network infrastructure to be highly available, resilient, and performant. In this post, we discuss the AWS approach to Inbound Traffic Engineering (TE). The AWS global network infrastructure operates at a massive scale. In 2024, AWS […]

AWS Application Load Balancer is an HTTP request load balancer designed to provide scalability through load distribution and high availability through target health detection and unhealthy target isolation. Today, we are excited to introduce ALB Target Optimizer, a powerful new feature through which ALB delivers optimal concurrency to each target. In this post, we will […]

AWS announced the launch of cross-region PrivateLink (XRPL) connectivity to AWS services. You can now use interface VPC endpoints to privately and securely connect to AWS services in other Regions of the Commercial partition. In this post, we discuss potential use cases, getting started and access control options for cross-region connectivity. Overview AWS PrivateLink provides […]

Introduction In this post, we review how you can perform in-place application upgrades using Amazon VPC Lattice, while maintaining system reliability, security, and performance. Whether you are upgrading a classic three-tier web application, migrating from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to containers, or managing periodic Kubernetes upgrades, one challenge remains consistent: making sure of […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that allows you to create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. It provides critical connectivity for a variety of workloads: connecting on-premises workloads to the cloud, connecting devices to the cloud, and […]

In this intermediate-level post, we show network administrators and security professionals how to use the new AWS Secrets Manager integration with AWS Site-to-Site VPN to enhance your security posture. This feature eliminates plaintext pre-shared keys (PSKs) and helps customers to shift to centralized secret management, thus providing stronger access control, audit visibility through AWS CloudTrail, and […]