Networking & Content Delivery
Tag: AWS PrivateLink
Hosting Internal HTTPS Static Websites with ALB, S3, and PrivateLink
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a powerful platform that enables you to do various tasks. One notable feature is the ability to create a bucket with an FQDN, point an alias record to the bucket website endpoint, and immediately get up-and-running with an HTTP static website. If you want to serve HTTPS traffic […]
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 […]
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 […]
Providing controlled internet access through centralised proxy servers using AWS Fargate and PrivateLink
In this post we provide a regional solution for controlling outbound internet access to 1000s of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) using AWS Fargate and AWS PrivateLink. It removes the need to manage any proxy servers or to provide Layer 3 connectivity between your VPCs. It also provides an end-to-end deployment pipeline with a simple, […]
Gain usage insights with Amazon CloudWatch metrics and Contributor Insights for AWS PrivateLink
We recently launched Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS PrivateLink. This feature publishes metrics for PrivateLink services and endpoints at 1-minute intervals at no cost to you. You can also use CloudWatch Contributor Insights to visualize usage against your PrivateLink services. This blog summarizes PrivateLink metrics, shows the metrics and filters in Amazon CloudWatch, and provides […]
Automating Domain Delegation for Public Applications in AWS
Security is top priority at AWS. Cybersecurity and digital risk management are the primary considerations of customers when ensuring that security and trust are always in place for a secure data and cloud infrastructure. These concerns are even more critical for public internet facing applications, which are accessed using a public domain. In AWS Cloud, […]
Connecting Networks with Overlapping IP Ranges
A common situation we see in customer networks is when there are resources with overlapping IP address ranges that must communicate with each other. Frequently this occurs when companies are acquired and have used the same private (RFC1918) address ranges. However, it can also occur when a service provider with a unique IP range must […]
Application Load Balancer-type Target Group for Network Load Balancer
Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a fully managed layer 7 load balancing service that load balances incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances. ALB supports advanced request routing features based on parameters like HTTP headers and methods, query string, host and path based routing. ALB also offloads important capabilities including TLS termination, […]
Scale traffic using multiple Interface Endpoints
Introduction: AWS PrivateLink is a networking service that is used to connect to AWS services, your internal services, and third-party Software as a Service (SaaS) services–all over the private, secure, and scalable AWS network. AWS PrivateLink has two sides to it: Service provider: Responsible for offering the service. The service provider creates an Amazon Virtual […]