Networking & Content Delivery

The Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) service launched with support from the partner network. These partners provide networking appliances that enable customers to perform varying levels of packet inspection on flows that pass through them, taking action as necessary and as defined within their configuration. For a list of partners that support GWLB, refer to the […]

Context IoT solutions today are both complex and business critical. At the same time, testing them thoroughly proves difficult because of the need to apply conditions of load, network, sensor behavior, and others. To address these, “Doppelio” – a SaaS-based IoT test automation solution was built as it helps alleviate IoT test limitations. It does […]

Upcoming Virtual Event Your customers expect low-latency, highly-available connectivity to your web applications all over the world, while your organization demands security, performance, and support at a reasonable cost. AWS CDN Edge Week is an online event series designed to help you navigate these business needs when building solutions in the evolving CDN edge. Join […]

Introduction This blog post is a continuation of Introduction to Network Transformation on AWS – Part 1. To recap, as your organization begins to embrace cloud, you extend your network to AWS using a hybrid connectivity architecture. When we work with customers, we see that their network traffic patterns have been changing as more applications […]

Introduction Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated virtual network. It has inbuilt network security controls and implicit routing between VPC subnets by design. Network security controls such as security groups (SGs) and network access control lists (ACLs) provide you with options to control network traffic. However these controls operate at network and transport […]

There are times when your client systems must resolve a Microsoft Active Directory’s Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) before they can join a domain. Each VPC in your AWS environment is provisioned with a DNS resolver powered by Amazon Route 53. We call this an AmazonProvidedDNS. This resolver runs on the second IPv4 address from […]

Update: As of January 27, 2022, AWS PrivateLink publishes data points to Amazon CloudWatch for your interface endpoints, Gateway Load Balancer endpoints, and endpoint services. CloudWatch enables you to retrieve statistics about those data points as an ordered set of time series data, known as metrics. As a PrivateLink Endpoint owner, you can use metrics […]

Introduction: As our computing needs evolve, one of the most common questions we hear from customers is, “how do I manage my private IP space? I’m almost out of it.” It’s difficult to assign separate Private IP ranges (RFC 1918) to different business units in an organization because the available IPv4 address range is restricted. […]

Learn how to solve for a common challenge you may face when streaming video on demand (VOD) – limiting access to media streams for select and/or paying users.

Introduction Regardless of size or industry, it’s common for organizations to have security and compliance rules for securing internet-bound traffic. AWS customers need control over, and the ability to filter, requests that are initiated by resources in private and public subnets and sent to the internet. This is also known as “egress filtering.” In AWS, […]