Networking & Content Delivery

Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching flat-rate pricing plans with no overages for website delivery and security. The pricing plans, available with Amazon CloudFront, combine global content delivery (CDN) with multiple AWS services and features into a monthly price with no overage charges, regardless of whether your website or application goes viral or faces […]

Scaling AWS VPN maintenance with tunnel endpoint lifecycle automation

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that can create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. A Site-to-Site VPN connection consists of two VPN tunnels for redundancy. As a managed service, Site-to-Site VPN periodically applies updates to your […]

Introducing QUIC Protocol Support for Network Load Balancer: Accelerating Mobile-First Applications

Today, AWS announces the launch of QUIC protocol support for Network Load Balancer (NLB). This capability enables customers to forward QUIC traffic to their targets with ultra-low latency while maintaining session stickiness using QUIC Connection IDs. In this blog we will provide an overview of QUIC, demonstrate how to enable it using the AWS Console […]

Introducing AWS Site-to-Site VPN 5 Gbps Tunnels to support high throughput workloads

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports VPN connections with up to 5 Gbps bandwidth per tunnel, a 4x improvement from existing limit of 1.25 Gbps. This increased bandwidth benefits customers who require high-capacity connections for bandwidth-intensive hybrid applications, big data migrations, and disaster recovery architectures. AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that allows you […]

Use Amazon VPC Lattice to streamline and secure TCP resource connectivity across multiple AWS Accounts

This guide demonstrates how to use Amazon VPC Lattice to establish secure TCP resource connectivity across multiple AWS accounts in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Organizations environment. We show how to create a service network in a centralized networking account and share it with other accounts to enable secure cross-account database access. Prerequisites For this […]

Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources

Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources

Amazon VPC Lattice is a fully managed application networking service that lets you connect, secure, and monitor communication between your services and resources within and across VPCs and accounts. Today, we announce custom domain names for Lattice resources. In this post, we will examine this feature in detail. Resource owners can now specify an Fully […]

Introducing cross-account support for Amazon CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins

In November 2024, Amazon CloudFront introduced CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, a security feature that allowed customers to deliver content from applications hosted in private subnets. In addition, we are now introducing cross-account support for Amazon CloudFront VPC origins, enabling network traffic flow between Amazon CloudFront and Application Load Balancers (ALBs), Network Load Balancers […]

Configuring the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group for your resources and clients

Users wanting to protect themselves from Layer 7 (HTTP) DDoS threats can use the AWS WAF L7 Anti-DDoS managed rule group to detect and mitigate DDoS events in single digit seconds. The Anti-DDoS managed rule group has a default configuration that is appropriate for many applications and clients. However, there are clients that need special […]

Streamline in-place application upgrades with Amazon VPC Lattice

Introduction In this post, we review how you can perform in-place application upgrades using Amazon VPC Lattice, while maintaining system reliability, security, and performance. Whether you are upgrading a classic three-tier web application, migrating from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to containers, or managing periodic Kubernetes upgrades, one challenge remains consistent: making sure of […]

Charting the life of an Amazon CloudFront request

Charting the life of an Amazon CloudFront request

Amazon CloudFront is a native AWS Content Delivery Network (CDN) service. CDNs provide web acceleration by using a worldwide network of edge locations closer to end-users, and caching content at the edge. However, CloudFront can do a lot more than that, with functionality at the edge to do geo-filtering, execute functions, perform AWS Web Application […]