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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 […]

Improving security and performance with additional DNS resource record types in Amazon Route 53

DNS is a key component of modern computing, a phone book for IP addresses. It is distinct from other protocols in the application stack. Because it is queried early in the request by a client, DNS is well suited to relay application-specific information back to a client as early as possible. This additional data can […]

Optimizing web application user experiences with AWS WAF JavaScript integrations

Optimizing web application user experiences with AWS WAF JavaScript integrations

AWS WAF Bot Control uses CAPTCHA and Challenge actions to undertake a browser interaction before permitting requests to protected resources. These actions can result in a poor user experience because of application errors or unexpected CAPTCHA completion when AWS WAF unexpectedly blocks requests. The AWS WAF JavaScript integrations give you the ability to control these […]

Network observability for modern applications

In today’s highly distributed and cloud-based IT environments, network monitoring has become crucial for organizations to maintain the health, performance, and security of their applications and infrastructure. However, as modern application architectures evolve, with multiple layers of abstraction and cloud-native services, many teams look for better ways to collect and use the high-quality network data […]

How to dynamically adapt your response to changing threat levels using AWS WAF

Customers use AWS WAF to protect their web applications and APIs. They typically use a mixture of managed rules and their own custom rules, and then tune them in order to prevent as much undesired traffic as possible from reaching their applications. This implementation and tuning exercise typically produces a web access control list (web ACL) that […]

Migrate your workloads to use VPC endpoints with minimum downtime

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints are comprised of gateway and interface endpoints that enable users to privately access supported Amazon Web Services (AWS) services and VPC endpoint services powered by AWS PrivateLink. They offer several benefits for organizations looking to enhance their cloud infrastructure’s security, performance, and cost efficiency. In an earlier post, Reduce […]

Estimate AWS networking costs with a self-hosted calculator

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide choice of networking services. While these services enable AWS to meet more customer needs around networking, that variety increases the number of available options to consider in making architectural decisions when designing AWS and hybrid networking infrastructure. Cost is one of the main factors that drive architectural decisions […]

Integrating MPLS connectivity to the AWS Cloud

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers look to extend their Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks into the cloud. MPLS networks offer reliable and performance-optimized routes for data, making them a preferred choice for enterprise connectivity. AWS Direct Connect further enhances this by providing a dedicated network link from an organization’s on-premises networks to AWS. This […]

Introducing configurable TCP idle timeout for Gateway Load Balancer

Update: Sep 10, 2024 – Corrected a CloudWatch metric name. Amazon Web Service (AWS) Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is a managed AWS service that allows you to insert third-party firewall appliances into the data path. GWLB helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party appliances, and it acts as a bump-in-the-wire device and passes traffic transparently […]

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 […]