Networking & Content Delivery
Tag: VPC
Securing VPCs Egress using IDS/IPS leveraging Transit Gateway
In a typical enterprise network, customers have VPCs across multiple accounts within an AWS Region to segment workloads. This segmentation can take different forms and depends on the company structure, security policy, business functions, and model. The drivers of the segmentation can vary. For example, segmentation could be driven by security and regulatory requirements, costs, […]
Read MoreSetting up AWS Direct Connect gateway to route DX traffic to any AWS Region
Direct Connect Senior Product Managers Madhura Kale and Erik Klavon contributed to this post. AWS Direct Connect (DX) has been a popular method for businesses to connect to AWS services, giving users a secure and reliable connection to an AWS Region. There are more than 100 DX locations available globally across major cities. However, you […]
Read MoreCreating a single internet exit point from multiple VPCs Using AWS Transit Gateway
In this post, we show you how to centralize outbound internet traffic from many VPCs without compromising VPC isolation. Using AWS Transit Gateway, you can configure a single VPC with multiple NAT gateways to consolidate outbound traffic for numerous VPCs. At the same time, you can use multiple route tables within the transit gateway to […]
Read MorePerforming Route 53 health checks on private resources in a VPC with AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch
If you have ever used Amazon Route 53 health checks to monitor resources, you know that monitored resources must have public IP addresses. This is because Route 53 health checkers are public and they can only monitor hosts with IP addresses that are publicly routable on the internet. You may want to monitor your resources […]
Read MoreCentralized DNS management of hybrid cloud with Amazon Route 53 and AWS Transit Gateway
A successful hybrid networking strategy goes beyond private network connectivity. It often requires dealing with independent internal zones both in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and on-premises. Such a strategy needs Domain Name System (DNS) naming that spans the entire network. Typically, this is managed by providing name resolution services in the same place […]
Read MoreMigrate from Transit VPC to AWS Transit Gateway
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) provides you with the ability to create as many virtual networks as you need. It also provides different options for connecting these networks to each other and to non-AWS infrastructure, such as on-premises data centers, remote headquarters, or other offices. Most of you start this journey with a few […]
Read MoreDebugging tool for network connectivity from Amazon VPC
Resources in AWS rely heavily on their underlying network to deliver a service at optimal performance. For example, your databases could be fine-tuned and your front end application servers could be running on the most expensive, high-end Amazon EC2 instances available. However, if the underlying network is experiencing an issue, all of these beneficial factors […]
Read MoreVPC sharing: A new approach to multiple accounts and VPC management
My first interaction with AWS was immediately after the launch of the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region, just a bit over 6 years ago. Back then, the AWS Management Console had fewer services, and I quickly found the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). In under 10 minutes, I could define a new VPC, with subnets, […]
Read MoreIntroducing Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) for Amazon VPC
A public IP address is a big part of what is used to identify you on the public internet. In cases such as migration, whitelisting, or even IP address reputation, it can be important to you as the application owner, that your application’s IP address remains the same, or in the case of a migration, […]
Read More