Tag: Networking and Content Delivery

AWS Client VPN  is a simple solution that allows users to connect from anywhere to their AWS environments, a capability that has become important to almost every organization over the last year. Single sign-on (SSO) is used widely across organizations of all sizes to authenticate and authorize their users’ access to enterprise applications and IT […]

Introduction Every device, resource, and workload connected to an Internet Protocol-based network depends on its IP address to communicate. The public and private IPv4 addressing space exhaustion, organizational mandates, and the need to provide service availability to IPv6-only clients drive an increasing number of organizations to adopt IPv6 in their environments. A well-managed IP address […]

Context IoT solutions today are both complex and business critical. At the same time, testing them thoroughly proves difficult because of the need to apply conditions of load, network, sensor behavior, and others. To address these, “Doppelio” – a SaaS-based IoT test automation solution was built as it helps alleviate IoT test limitations. It does […]

When Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) launched in 2006, the world looked very different. Cellphones weren’t smart, and no one had even heard of an App Store. Fast forward 15 years, and the world has become more digitized with many companies building their success by running secure, reliable, and scalable workloads in the cloud. Amazon […]

AWS PrivateLink provides private, secure connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks, without exposing your traffic to the public internet. AWS PrivateLink offers three primary benefits to customers. First, it provides a way for two parties to establish private connectivity without requiring an Internet Gateway (IGW), thereby helping both parties to deploy airtight […]

Many organizations want to replay production traffic to a test environment, with no impact on the end user’s experience. This is known as traffic mirroring or traffic shadowing. Testing the new version of a workload with production traffic is a key step for a successful release. Some tests use scripted requests, but real traffic is […]

VPC Traffic Mirroring is an AWS feature used to copy network traffic from the elastic network interface of an EC2 instance to a target for analysis. This makes a variety of network-based monitoring and analytics solutions possible on AWS. By capturing the raw packet data required for content inspection, VPC Traffic Mirroring enables agentless methods […]

On the AWS networking team, we’re often asked by customers who use AWS Global Accelerator to provide guidance around how to test and measure the network performance of their applications. To share this information more broadly, we decided to write this blog post. In this post, we discuss the factors that impact network performance and […]

Introduction AWS Outposts bring AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility, in the form of a physical rack connected to the AWS global network. AWS services run locally on the Outpost, and you can access the full range of AWS services available in your Region—including Application Load Balancer (ALB). […]

AWS Global Accelerator now supports custom routing accelerators, a new type of accelerator that allows you to use your own application logic to route multiple users to a specific Amazon EC2 destination, while still leveraging the benefits of Global Accelerator. Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves your internet user performance and availability by […]