Networking & Content Delivery

Category: AWS PrivateLink

Accelerate IPv6

Accelerate IPv6 application migration with AWS PrivateLink and dual stack Network Load Balancers UDP support

This post was co-authored by: Ashish Kumar, Senior Product Manager; Blayze Stefaniak, Senior Solutions Architect; Natti Swaminathan, Senior Solutions Architect; and Yogesh Patel, Senior Solutions Architect In this post, we review how you can leverage AWS PrivateLink support for User Datagram Protocol (UDP) services, and accelerate Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) migrations with UDP support […]

Optimizing Amazon S3 data transfers over Direct Connect

In today’s data-driven landscape, the efficient transfer of large datasets to and from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a critical piece of an enterprise’s cloud strategy. Common business use cases that need frequent transferring of large data sets include cloud-based data lakes that depend on receiving data from various sources. These sources often […]

How Druva uses AWS PrivateLink for Secure Cloud Data Transfers

In this post, we examine how Druva, a SaaS vendor offering cloud data protection and management solutions, implemented AWS PrivateLink to secure data transfers between Druva’s customers using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Druva virtual private cloud (VPC). PrivateLink establishes private connectivity between VPCs, Amazon hosted services, and on-premises networks using VPC endpoints. This provides […]

Networking best practices for generative AI on AWS

Introduction As generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) continues to evolve, the demand for more powerful and efficient computing resources grows, along with the need to manage exponentially increasing amounts of data. Datasets used for training generative AI models are typically measured in terabytes (TB), orders of magnitude bigger than traditional machine learning (ML) datasets whose […]

Streamline access to most used AWS services using VPC Endpoints

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) PrivateLink, can be used to privately connect your applications to AWS services as if they were in your VPC. For enterprises that use many AWS services, it may be difficult to understand which services are being used most often and therefore can […]

How to migrate your VPC endpoint service backend targets

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints – powered by AWS PrivateLink—allow you to securely expose your application to consumers on AWS without using public IP space and without worrying about overlapping private IP space. You also don’t have to worry about creating bidirectional network paths using services like AWS Transit Gateway or Amazon VPC Peering.To […]

Hosting Internal HTTPS Static Websites with ALB, S3, and PrivateLink

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a powerful platform that enables you to do various tasks. One notable feature is the ability to create a bucket with an FQDN, point an alias record to the bucket website endpoint, and immediately get up-and-running with an HTTP static website. If you want to serve HTTPS traffic […]

Approaches to Transport Layer Tenant Routing for SaaS using AWS PrivateLink

In today’s ecosystem, Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings are primarily delivered in a low friction, service-centric approach over the Internet. These services are often mobile applications or websites delivered via a Content Delivery Network (CDN), such as Amazon CloudFront, that in turn issues requests to the backend SaaS platform. As a SaaS provider, your […]

Designing hyperscale Amazon VPC networks

Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are continuously increasing the number of applications and workloads they run on AWS, driven by accelerated cloud adoption and environment expansion. An environment can be considered “Hyperscale” once it supports thousands of application endpoints and tens or hundreds of gigabits of traffic per second. Hyperscale environments on AWS favor […]

Providing controlled internet access through centralised proxy servers using AWS Fargate and PrivateLink

In this post we provide a regional solution for controlling outbound internet access to 1000s of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) using AWS Fargate and AWS PrivateLink. It removes the need to manage any proxy servers or to provide Layer 3 connectivity between your VPCs. It also provides an end-to-end deployment pipeline with a simple, […]