Networking & Content Delivery
Understanding IPv6 addressing on AWS and designing a scalable addressing plan
An increasing number of organizations are adopting IPv6 in their environments, driven by government mandates, public IPv4 space exhaustion, and private IPv4 scarcity. To accommodate for workload growth, integrate new business needs (for example, mergers and acquisitions), expand into other regions, and increase developer productivity, you need to design and implement a scalable, extensible, and […]
Satellite communication on AWS: Thales cloudifies in-flight WiFi service
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has found widespread adoption in the satellite communication and aerospace sectors, serving not only as a platform for modernizing their overall IT infrastructure but also for delivering network connectivity solutions. One prominent example showcases how a leading satellite and aerospace company, Thales Avionics, used AWS to build a virtual data center […]
Use AWS Global Accelerator to improve application performance
In the dynamic landscape of web applications and APIs, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure access for all your customers is crucial. With traditional implementations, though, users of global applications often face latency and reliability challenges because of delays and uneven performance due to the complexity of the global internet infrastructure. AWS Global Accelerator enables you […]
Establish private connectivity between Salesforce and your on-premises network using AWS Direct Connect
Salesforce is an AWS Partner and a trusted global leader in customer relationship management (CRM). Hyperforce is the next-generation Salesforce architecture, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). When business applications developed on Hyperforce are integrated with on-premises systems, traffic in both directions will flow over the internet. For customers in heavily regulated industries such as […]
Integrating AWS Client VPN with AWS Network Firewall
Organizations use remote access solutions for secure remote user access to resources hosted on their internal networks. This post shows various deployment models to integrate AWS Network Firewall with AWS Client VPN. AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that secures access to your AWS resources, and resources in your on-premises network, over […]
Fever: Building a VPN-less secure network for corporate access
Fever is the leading global live-entertainment discovery platform, and it has helped millions of people discover the best experiences in their cities since 2014. With a mission to democratize access to culture and entertainment in real life through its platform, Fever inspires users to enjoy unique local experiences and events, from immersive exhibitions, interactive theatrical […]
Active Directory Domain Services integration with Amazon Route 53
Anyone who has worked with Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and domain-joined workloads in the past likely knows how critical proper DNS resolution is to healthy operations. Even if you haven’t worked with AD DS workloads, if you are reading this post, you have likely heard of some outage that was caused by […]
How to achieve DNS high availability with Route 53 Resolver endpoints
This post assumes a certain level of technical knowledge, including familiarity with DNS terminology, Wireshark, and Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints. Introduction The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical service underpinning nearly the entire internet. As nearly every application begins with DNS resolution, a highly available and performant DNS architecture is crucial for application […]
DNS best practices for Amazon Route 53
Most web services rely on DNS to resolve names to IP addresses and sometimes other pieces of information. Amazon Route 53 provides highly available and scalable recursive DNS resolution, domain registration, and authoritative DNS-hosted zones that include health check capabilities and a broad array of routing capabilities. When using Amazon Route 53, you can scale […]
Automating the admission of virtual private clouds to AWS Cloud WAN networks
In this blog post, we present an augmented approach of managing AWS Cloud WAN segments in a secure, scalable, and on-demand way. When your organization increases the number of AWS accounts and AWS Regions in use, operational and security complexities related with admitting new user-created virtual private clouds (Amazon VPCs) to the network also increase—from […]