Networking & Content Delivery

Tag: AWS Direct Connect

Enabling global expansion and reduced operational overhead at Comcast with AWS Transit Gateway

This blog post is co-written by David Hocky from Comcast Corporation. This post explains how Comcast achieved faster time-to-market for new product launches, increased resiliency, and reduced operational overhead by using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect. Comcast is a global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms, to […]

Networking best practices for generative AI on AWS

Introduction As generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) continues to evolve, the demand for more powerful and efficient computing resources grows, along with the need to manage exponentially increasing amounts of data. Datasets used for training generative AI models are typically measured in terabytes (TB), orders of magnitude bigger than traditional machine learning (ML) datasets whose […]

Monitoring surveillance camera feeds on AWS with multicast technology

As governments seek to improve security and safety in public places, video surveillance in the public sector is a rapidly growing technology. Video surveillance is increasingly being used in public places such as airports, train stations, public transportation, schools, and government buildings. Governments all over the world aim to put in place various measures to […]

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 […]

Using AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs to chargeback data processing costs in a multi-account environment

Many AWS customers use consolidated billing, and often need to allocate costs across their internal business units or accounts. This can be challenging when dealing with services that are shared by all accounts. For general chargebacks, some customers use cost allocation tags for this purpose. However, at the time of writing this post, there is […]

Monitor hybrid connectivity with Amazon CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor

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

Hybrid cloud architectures using AWS Direct Connect gateway

In April 2023, AWS increased several AWS Direct Connect quota limits, as you have asked for increased scale and capacity for hybrid cloud connectivity. With the new limits, you can now create up to four Transit Virtual interfaces (VIFs) per AWS Direct Connect dedicated connection. The maximum number of prefixes has increased to 200 for […]

Announcing Amazon Virtual Private Gateway Ingress Routing support for Gateway Load Balancer

Today, on 30th August 2023, AWS launched a new enhancement to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Ingress Routing feature. With this enhancement, customers can now specify a Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint (GWLBE) as the next-hop in the virtual private gateway (VGW) route table. This allows customers to inspect their traffic coming into AWS […]

Improving Performance on AWS and Hybrid Networks

In this post, we provide recommendations to improve network performance on AWS and hybrid networks. In today’s enterprise networking environment, it is becoming common for customers to have multi-gigabit connectivity to AWS either through AWS Direct Connect or over the Internet. Although network bandwidth is fundamental, several other factors come into play for network performance, […]

Hybrid inspection architectures with AWS Local Zone

Hybrid inspection architectures with AWS Local Zones

Customers often ask about hybrid security inspection architecture patterns for latency-sensitive applications, where they want to run their workloads inside of AWS Local Zones, to perform security inspection but without compromising latency. In this post, we share some hybrid inspection architectures with traffic flows, where both workloads and security inspection appliances run inside of the […]