Networking & Content Delivery

Improving video observability with CMCD and CloudFront

Observability is critical for operating any system. It should tell whether the system is functioning correctly, provide insights in user experience, notify when issues occur, and help to locate the root cause. However, building an observable video streaming system can be a challenge for customers as it requires collecting, correlating, and analyzing data from several […]

Learn how LambdaTest transformed its global hybrid network using AWS

LambdaTest, a leading omnichannel test orchestration and execution cloud platform was looking to scale their multi-Region and hybrid networks. LambdaTest’s existing hybrid global network used AWS Site-to-Site VPN to connect their locations and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across multiple AWS Regions. LambdaTest is growing rapidly, helping over 2 million developers run over 500 million […]

External Server Authorization with Lambda@Edge

Introduction In this blog post, we will explain how you can use Lambda@Edge to authorize requests to Amazon CloudFront by forwarding authorization data to external authorization servers. We will outline the sequence of requests in such a workflow, the steps for implementation with Node.js sample code, and a CloudFormation template for a simple external test […]

AWS Site-to-Site VPN, choosing the right options to optimize performance

AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully-managed performant, scalable, secure, and highly-available way to connect your on-premises users and workloads to AWS. When using Site-to-Site VPN you can connect to both Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) with two tunnels per connection for increased redundancy. For even greater performance with sites further from your AWS Region(s), […]

How to use AWS Network Manager to visualize Transit Gateways across multiple accounts in the AWS Organization

When you migrate or build a new applications in AWS, you must connect multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) spread across different accounts and your on-premises systems with these VPCs. AWS Transit Gateway is one of the most popular and commonly used services in these scenarios. When you want communication/isolation between VPCs, and they also […]

Cost-Optimizing your AWS architectures by utilizing Amazon CloudFront features

Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) that makes it easy to deliver websites, videos, apps, and APIs securely and at high speeds with low latency. You can use CloudFront to reduce latency by delivering data through 400+ globally dispersed Points of Presence (PoPs) and improve security with traffic encryption, access controls, and […]

Hosting Internal HTTPS Static Websites with ALB, S3, and PrivateLink

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a powerful platform that enables you to do various tasks. One notable feature is the ability to create a bucket with an FQDN, point an alias record to the bucket website endpoint, and immediately get up-and-running with an HTTP static website. If you want to serve HTTPS traffic […]

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 […]

New – Gateway Load Balancer support for IPv6

In 2020, we launched Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), allowing you to deploy in-line inspection and filtering of packets. Various customers are leveraging this service to implement firewalls, intrusion detection, and network monitoring appliances in a centralized location. The ability to use multiple GWLB endpoints installed in workload VPCs allows distributed access to these centralized inspection […]

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager Best Practices

Internet Protocol (IP) address management is an essential network planning and management component, and creating a scalable addressing scheme allows your AWS and hybrid network to expand, accommodating the needs of your workloads. Careful consideration for how your IP address space is allocated minimizes the risk of overlapping Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks, and of […]