Networking & Content Delivery
Ataccama: Building our global network with AWS Cloud WAN
Ataccama is a global software company with a unified platform for automating data quality, MDM, and metadata management – Ataccama ONE. We specialize in complex enterprise data governance solutions that provide sustainable, long-term value. At Ataccama, we migrated our global wide area network to AWS Cloud WAN to simplify configuration and management. In this post, […]
Segmenting hybrid networks with AWS Transit Gateway connect
Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) is a traditional network feature which uses isolated logical routing domains (route tables/VRFs) to keep network traffic separated within the same physical infrastructure. Customers ask us how to combine the segmentation provided by AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Transit Gateway with VRF isolation when connecting their on-premises networks to AWS. […]
Using load balancer target group health thresholds to improve availability
Introduction AWS recently added features to our Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) that give you control over when they take measures to shift traffic between targets. In this blog, we will explore these new capabilities and review how you can use them to improve the availability and resiliency of your applications. Two types of Elastic Load […]
Lightning in a Bottle Festival 2023: DDR.Live deploys AWS Private 5G
In the world of live events, conferences, music festivals, and pop-ups, reliable connectivity has become an essential element in the success of any event. The ability to provide guests seamless interactions with a variety of technologies, such as Point of Sale (PoS), access control, ticketing, and check-in is crucial for events of all sizes. However, […]
Mitigate Common Web Threats with One Click in Amazon CloudFront
You can now add AWS WAF protections to Amazon CloudFront distributions with one click. In this walkthrough, we will guide you through setting up and monitoring protections offered by this new feature along with pricing and additional security recommendations. This blog relates to Amazon CloudFront — a AWS service that you can use to deliver […]
Hybrid security inspection architectures with AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Direct Connect
AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build and operate wide area networks that connect your data centers and branch offices, as well as your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). With Cloud WAN, you connect to AWS through your choice of local network providers, then use a central dashboard and network policies to create a […]
Scaling NLB target groups by connections
When workload performance depends on the number of networking connections, traditional load balancing metrics like CPU load or memory utilization do not provide the information you need in order to make scaling decisions. In this post, we explore a solution that automatically scales backend connections of a Network Load Balancer (NLB) target group based on […]
Get ready for AWS IPv6 day
AWS is celebrating IPv6 day on June 8, 2023 with a full day (10:30AM PST – 6:30PM PST) of live streamed video content! Let’s face it, dealing with IPv4 addresses can be exhausting 🙃, but moving to IPv6 can be as daunting. The folks behind the The Routing Loop Twitch channel have planned a full […]
Achieving Zero-downtime deployments with Amazon CloudFront using blue/green continuous deployments
Blue/green deployment is a widely used deployment technique in software development aimed at minimizing downtime and risks associated with introducing new code. The strategy involves concurrently running two identical environments, namely blue and green, and directing traffic between them as necessary. This allows you to have uninterrupted delivery of new features and updates, with no […]
Host Single Page Applications (SPA) with Tiered TTLs on CloudFront and S3
Many of our customers use Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to deploy Single Page Applications (SPA): web applications created with React, Angular, Vue, etc. The development teams of these SPAs often have the following, seemingly conflicting, requirements: Users should experience as little latency as possible in downloading the web application. Therefore, […]