Category: Amazon API Gateway

In this post, we show how organizations can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to detect and block access to malicious domains. We show how you can use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Domain Lists, which contain domains associated with malicious activity or potential threats, and share best practices for implementing Route 53 […]

Enterprise customers have differing requirements based on a number of reasons including security, compliance, governance, and the industry they operate. In certain situations, customers are expected to adhere to certain protocols and standards that are non-negotiable. In this post, we explore how customers can specify TLS protocols and associated ciphers that are allowed from viewers […]

In this post, we demonstrate how you can use a same domain policy with Amazon CloudFront. Using this method, you eliminate the need for enabling Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which results in improved performance for Single-Page Applications (SPA). Over the years, SPA frameworks such as ReactJs and AngularJs have become a popular method for developing […]

Customers use Amazon API Gateway APIs for critical production applications ranging from simple HTTP proxies to full-blown API management with request transformation, authentication, and validation. Starting in 2019, HTTP APIs have provided an enhanced alternative to the traditional API Gateway REST APIs, with HTTP APIs offering up to 60% latency reduction, 71% cost reduction, and […]

Introduction In this article, I will walk you through the steps to configure Amazon API Gateway in combination with AWS Global Accelerator to present Internet-facing API via static IP addresses to end users. This design addresses the need for static IP safelisting and also provides additional performance benefits to end users by sending user’s traffic […]