Tag: Best Practices

This blog is co-authored with Jenny Zhou, Principal Enterprise Architect at United Airlines In this blog, we will explore how United Airlines implemented an enterprise-wide resilience program using Amazon Web Services (AWS). United Airlines, a major U.S. airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, announced its United Next plan in 2021. United Next is the airline’s plan […]

Applications face a variety of security threats, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, web application exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), and bot traffic. In this post, to help protect your applications against these threats, we demonstrate how to build your first web access control list (web ACL) in AWS WAF. AWS […]

Users everywhere expect stable, consistent, and high-performing applications, regardless of where an application is hosted. However, end users often experience variability and congestion over the public internet, which can be especially problematic when users are geographically distant from the application. These issues can be a major obstacle to providing your users with the online experience […]

When thinking about architecture, it’s very common to come across scenarios where there is no right or wrong answer – the best answer is “it depends”. You must carefully consider the tradeoffs between cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency before coming to a decision. A little planning ahead of time can help you avoid numerous […]