Category: Networking & Content Delivery

In today’s workplace, your users need secure, authenticated remote connectivity to your applications. Until recently, many organizations took this requirement to mean “VPN connection.” AWS Client VPN, introduced in 2018, has provided AWS customers with a managed, OpenVPN-based VPN client solution for securing remote access to on-premises and AWS-hosted applications. AWS Verified Access, launched in […]

Introduction In this post, we review advanced global routing scenarios with AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Direct Connect and dive into how you can control routing to build connectivity between AWS and on-premises locations. We also share best practices for optimizing routing in multi-Region hybrid networks and review common high-availability settings and failover scenarios. Customers […]

Fifteen years ago, Amazon CloudFront launched with 14 edge locations scattered around the world.  Since then, it’s been exciting to see how quickly we’ve grown to now having over 600 CloudFront Points of Presence (POPs) in more than 100 cities and 50 countries worldwide. We have continued to build and innovate, finding new ways to […]

AWS recently announced support for mutually authenticating clients that present X509 certificates to Application Load Balancer (ALB). In this post, we discuss options for implementing this new feature, and things to consider while implementing. ALB operates at the application layer (layer 7 in the OSI model) and load balances incoming HTTP/HTTPS requests to backend targets. […]

To operate websites, mobile apps, or services accessible to public users in China, companies should complete internet content provider (ICP) recordal and host systems on local servers or approved cloud servers located in mainland China. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers AWS China Regions, two Regions situated in China that allow customers to host websites and […]

Public IPv4 addresses have been a scarce resource going all the way back to 2011, when the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) distributed the last block of unallocated public IPv4 addresses. Alongside, the private IPv4 range carved out by RFC1918 has also been too small for large networks and deployments, like containers that consume a […]

Note: To learn more about Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC), we recommend you read Part 1 and Part 2 of the series, and try out the examples. It demonstrates how the ARC service allows you to coordinate failovers and the recovery readiness of your application. In this blog post, we provide […]

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 […]

Changing IT providers has always required time, effort, and money, but cloud computing has made that process easier than ever. Before cloud services, switching was often prohibitively difficult and expensive: over a multi-year process, companies would make up-front investments in new hardware and rewrite software to conform to their new provider’s proprietary operating system. At […]

Many AWS customers use consolidated billing, and often need to allocate costs across their internal business units or accounts. This can be challenging when dealing with services that are shared by all accounts. For general chargebacks, some customers use cost allocation tags for this purpose. However, at the time of writing this post, there is […]