Networking & Content Delivery

In this post, you’ll learn how to secure and accelerate the delivery of Drupal-based websites using Amazon CloudFront, AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF), and Amazon CloudFront Functions. CloudFront is a content delivery network service (CDN) offering improved security and acceleration of the content served through it. This is true for static cacheable content and […]

In 2020, we launched Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), allowing you to deploy in-line inspection and filtering of packets. Various customers are leveraging this service to implement firewalls, intrusion detection, and network monitoring appliances in a centralized location. The ability to use multiple GWLB endpoints installed in workload VPCs allows distributed access to these centralized inspection […]

Internet Protocol (IP) address management is an essential network planning and management component, and creating a scalable addressing scheme allows your AWS and hybrid network to expand, accommodating the needs of your workloads. Careful consideration for how your IP address space is allocated minimizes the risk of overlapping Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks, and of […]

It is common to encounter network designs on AWS with resources that belong to multiple AWS accounts. For example, you may have several AWS accounts with Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in those accounts connected to an AWS Transit Gateway in a central networking account. You may need to determine or diagnose network reachability between AWS […]

This blog is co-authored by Parrish Gamarra, Principal Network Architect, Johnson & Johnson Introduction Mergers, Acquisitions (M&A), and divestitures are part of many enterprises’ journeys, driven by evolving business goals like expanding into new geographies or to spin off a line of business. Refer to this post for checking your general readiness for M&A with […]

At IMDb, we run a Federated GraphQL Gateway on AWS Lambda that backs our website and apps and handles over 10,000 peak TPS. For more information about how we built that, see our three posts: building GraphQL on Lambda, managing federated schemas, and monitoring and tuning. As our website adds more features that call GraphQL […]

In December 2019, we announced our first Local Zone in Los Angeles. As a refresher, AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage, database, and other AWS services close to large population, industry, and IT locations. Local Zones extend the capabilities of an AWS Region – what we called “parent” […]

AWS has just announced the release of a new internet monitoring service, Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. Performance and availability over the internet are key insights that can help you deliver a bar-raising user experience for your AWS applications. User experience can be greatly impacted by internet events outside your control that can go unnoticed. Creating […]

Update – 3rd May 2023 With this update, zonal shift for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller is now also available in the following AWS Regions. Learn more in the updated What’s New post or zonal shift documentation. Today we’re introducing zonal shift, a new capability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 […]

Many network appliances define idle connection timeout to terminate connections after an inactivity period. For example, appliances like NAT Gateway, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Endpoints, and Network Load Balancer (NLB) currently have a fixed idle timeout of 350 seconds. Packets sent after the idle timeout expired aren’t delivered to the destination. Some applications or […]