Category: Networking & Content Delivery

If you offer applications such as gaming, media, mobile, or financial applications, you need consistent, low latency for a great user experience. AWS Global Accelerator helps you to achieve lower latency by improving performance for internet traffic between your users’ client devices and your applications running on AWS. It uses the AWS global network to […]

Over the past couple of months we’ve deployed a series of changes that significantly reduced the average change propagation time and the frequency of spikes. Now instead of change propagation times that averaged between 17 and 35 minutes, we’re now at a point where we are reliably pushing these changes within 5 minutes. Read more about the recent changes.

In the telecommunications industry, real-time communication (RTC) refers to live media sessions between two endpoints with minimum latency and jitter. These sessions could be for voice, instant messaging or live video. Each of these solutions consists of one or more signaling message exchanges that control the call (e.g., authentication, authorization and access control, transcoding, or […]

Update March 17, 2020 – With recent events, the need to provide a remote workforce with secured connectivity is greater than ever. It comes as no surprise that this post (originally published on December 19, 2018) is receiving a lot of traffic. The content is still relevant today, so we’re publishing it again to make it […]

Introduction With the introduction of AWS Transit Gateway, it is easier for customers to manage connectivity between many VPCs. Further simplification can be achieved by routing all outbound traffic through one shared egress VPC. This allows re-use of NAT Gateways and can improve overall network design and operational efficiency. This ‘egress VPC’ design pattern is […]

Many Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) offer a feature to obfuscate the source origin through functionality commonly referred to as origin cloaking. Using AWS Global Accelerator with Client IP Address Preservation capability, similar functionally can be facilitated. Private Application Load Balancers (ALBs) and private EC2 instances can be accessed through Global Accelerator in a secure and simplified manner. AWS […]

For consumer-facing websites, the speed at which the site loads directly impacts the user’s browsing experience and the success of your business. If your website takes a long time to load, your users might abandon it before completing their transaction, affecting your revenue. You can use a content delivery network (CDN) like Amazon CloudFront to […]

AWS Global Accelerator is a network service that routes incoming network traffic over the AWS global network to multiple AWS Regions in order to improve performance and availability for your global applications. It makes use of our collection of edge locations and our congestion-free global network to direct traffic based on application health, network health, […]

If you are reading part two of this two-part blog series, it probably means that you operate a video streaming service for millions of viewers, with high sensitivity to performance, and you are considering multiple CDNs for your video delivery. In this part, I will guide you through important questions to consider when deploying a […]

A virtual private network (VPN) is one of the most common ways that customers connect securely to the AWS Cloud from on-premises or data center environments. Customers establish VPN connectivity to AWS using AWS managed VPN solutions like AWS Site-to-Site VPN, transit gateways, or partner solutions running on Amazon EC2. In this post, we demonstrate […]