Tag: Networking and Content Delivery

Introduction The AWS WAF Bot Control rule group includes rules for detecting and managing bot threats. These threats range from easily identified common bots through to coordinated targeted bots that evade detection by operating across multiple hosts. Like any other security controls, Amazon Web Services (AWS) WAF Bot Control for Targeted Bots rules can also […]

Managing DNS configurations across multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts can be a daunting task for network administrators, especially in complex environments with numerous Private Hosted Zones (PHZs) and Amazon Route 53 Resolver rules. Traditionally, they relied on outbound and inbound Route 53 Resolver endpoints to transport DNS […]

Customers frequently use on-premises DNS infrastructure to resolve DNS queries for internal domains. In 2018, we announced Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints, which enable customers to integrate Route 53 with their on-premises DNS infrastructure for hybrid DNS resolution. In 2023, we improved this integration by providing customers the ability to encrypt DNS queries and responses […]

Fifteen years ago, Amazon CloudFront launched with 14 edge locations scattered around the world.  Since then, it’s been exciting to see how quickly we’ve grown to now having over 600 CloudFront Points of Presence (POPs) in more than 100 cities and 50 countries worldwide. We have continued to build and innovate, finding new ways to […]

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 […]

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor alerts you to critical internet health events that affect your application users. However, it can also play a key role in helping you efficiently troubleshoot and mitigate network problems before they affect your customers or cause headaches for your leadership. The simplest and most efficient way to leverage the new internet-centric […]

Ataccama is a global software company with a unified platform for automating data quality, MDM, and metadata management – Ataccama ONE. We specialize in complex enterprise data governance solutions that provide sustainable, long-term value. At Ataccama, we migrated our global wide area network to AWS Cloud WAN to simplify configuration and management. In this post, […]

The AWS Summit in Washington, DC, our event tailored to the interests of the public sector community, is fast approaching! This post highlights the Breakout, Chalk Talks, Builder’s session, and Workshop session that make up the Networking track to help you plan your agenda. The event takes place in-person at the Walter E. Washington Convention […]

Earlier this year, we released technical guidance regarding three advanced design patterns for highly available applications using Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. In this post, we dive deeper into CloudFront origin failover, Amazon Route 53 DNS failover, and the hybrid origin failover approach to further enhance the availability of your web applications. We also […]

Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network that securely delivers applications, websites, videos, and APIs to viewers across the globe in milliseconds. Using CloudFront, customers can access different types of origin services to suit their use cases. One of the performant architectures customers adopt is to use Amazon S3 as the origin to host […]