Category: Technical How-to

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Application owners often rely on content management systems (CMS) to publish and manage content on their websites. WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system. Originally launched as a blogging platform back in 2003, WordPress now powers 43% of all websites and controls a massive 64.3% of the known CMS market. The purpose of this […]

As governments seek to improve security and safety in public places, video surveillance in the public sector is a rapidly growing technology. Video surveillance is increasingly being used in public places such as airports, train stations, public transportation, schools, and government buildings. Governments all over the world aim to put in place various measures to […]

Organizations use remote access solutions for secure remote user access to resources hosted on their internal networks. This post shows various deployment models to integrate AWS Network Firewall with AWS Client VPN. AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that secures access to your AWS resources, and resources in your on-premises network, over […]

Anyone who has worked with Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and domain-joined workloads in the past likely knows how critical proper DNS resolution is to healthy operations. Even if you haven’t worked with AD DS workloads, if you are reading this post, you have likely heard of some outage that was caused by […]