Networking & Content Delivery

Architect dual stack Amazon VPC with multiple IPv6 CIDR blocks

Introduction With the increasing adoption of IPv6 on AWS, the need to create an easy-to-manage, hierarchical, and scalable IP addressing plan for Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) becomes critical for customers. With IPv4, adding more CIDR blocks to a VPC was driven mainly by the need to increase the address space within a VPC. […]

Image Optimization using Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda

Image Optimization using Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda Images are usually the heaviest components of a web page, both in terms of bytes and number of HTTP requests. Optimizing images on your website is critical to improve your users’ experience, reduce delivery costs and enhance your position in search engine ranking. For example, Google’s Largest […]

Approaches to Transport Layer Tenant Routing for SaaS using AWS PrivateLink

In today’s ecosystem, Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings are primarily delivered in a low friction, service-centric approach over the Internet. These services are often mobile applications or websites delivered via a Content Delivery Network (CDN), such as Amazon CloudFront, that in turn issues requests to the backend SaaS platform. As a SaaS provider, your […]

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 […]

Introducing AWS Global Accelerator IPv6

We are excited to announce the availability of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for AWS Global Accelerator. IPv6 is a version of the Internet Protocol that uses a larger address space (128 bits). Moreover, it allows more IP addresses than its predecessor IPv4 (32 bits). IPv6 support lets you meet the requirements for IPv6 […]

Optimize content delivery for mobile devices with Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront lets you securely deliver data, videos, applications, and APIs to your global customers with low latency and high transfer speeds. In today’s digital-first world with a worldwide customer base, it’s important to deliver digital assets to end users with the lowest possible load time. Mobile devices now account for approximately 70% of internet traffic [1]. […]

Designing hyperscale Amazon VPC networks

Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are continuously increasing the number of applications and workloads they run on AWS, driven by accelerated cloud adoption and environment expansion. An environment can be considered “Hyperscale” once it supports thousands of application endpoints and tens or hundreds of gigabits of traffic per second. Hyperscale environments on AWS favor […]

Introducing Prefix Lists in AWS Network Firewall Stateful Rule Groups

Previously you needed to update individual AWS Network Firewall rules when scaling your network to add new IP addresses. The release of this new feature means that you can update the relevant prefix list, and all of the Network Firewall rule groups that reference the prefix list are automatically updated. Both customer-managed and AWS-managed prefix […]

How to optimize content for search engines with AWS WAF Bot Control and Amazon CloudFront

Search engine crawlers – a special bot type used to index your site – are very important visitors. They make sure that your content is searchable by end users. If a crawler can’t easily read your content, then any updates you make might not be immediately reflected in the search results. Depending on the algorithms […]