Networking & Content Delivery

AWS Verified Access (AVA) provides secure access to applications from anywhere. AVA removes the need for a VPN, which simplifies the remote connectivity experience for end users and reduces the management complexity for IT administrators. But does the application need to be running in AWS to use AVA? The answer is No.  If you have […]

Update: Sep 9, 2024 – Expanded considerations section with clarification on cost dimensions. Introduction AWS Cloud WAN is a managed wide-area networking (WAN) service for building, managing, and monitoring a unified global network, as well as connecting resources running across your cloud and on-premises environments. With AWS Cloud WAN, you have a central place to […]

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is a VPC feature that allows you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Until now, VPC IPAM allowed you to allocate CIDR blocks and monitor them at the VPC level. With a recent feature enhancement in VPC IPAM, you can now manage CIDR allocations […]

This is a guest post co-written with Roshan Raj, Cloud Network Specialist at ZS Associates In this blog post, we will highlight challenges faced by ZS to keep cost under control while managing a large, complex global network infrastructure which spans across multiple AWS Regions. We will show how ZS used Network Orchestration for AWS […]

AWS Network Manager is a great tool that lets you monitor changes in your network and create automations. In this post, we cover how to leverage events in Network Manager to get notified about network changes and how to use AWS Serverless technologies to enrich the information provided by these events. Let’s start with a simple question: What is Network […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can use the AWS global infrastructure to deploy workloads to multiple AWS Regions. They can create global networks that span multiple AWS Regions to connect these workloads to each other and to on-premises networks. A common design pattern is to use a central networking AWS account to own shared network resources, such as AWS Transit […]

In November 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of Amazon CloudFront continuous deployment, extending the functionality of your existing CloudFront distributions by allowing you to test and validate configuration changes to a percentage of live traffic before extending to your wider audience. Previously, customers had to do the heavy lifting of changing DNS […]

Traffic Mirroring is an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) feature you can use to copy network traffic from an elastic network interface of an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance and send it to a target storage service for analysis. You can use it for content inspection, threat monitoring, network performance monitoring, and troubleshooting. Through […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Verified Access (AVA) is a secure remote access service that eliminates the need for VPNs. AVA reduces management complexity and improves security with real-time evaluations of requests based on factors such as identity and device posture. With Verified Access, you can define access policies written in Cedar using end user context, […]

Today we announce the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor, a feature of CloudWatch that makes it easy to gain visibility of your hybrid network connectivity with AWS. CloudWatch Network monitor currently supports hybrid monitors for networking built with AWS Direct Connect and AWS Site-to-Site VPN. You can find Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor in the Amazon CloudWatch […]