Category: Networking & Content Delivery

Introduction In this blog post, we will discuss how you can use Amazon VPC Lattice to connect your services securely, and monitor communication flows, in a simple and consistent way across instances, containers, and serverless, in a multi-account and multi-Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment. We’ll define the new constructs VPC Lattice leverages to enable application […]

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement tag-based invalidation in Amazon CloudFront with Lambda@Edge, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions. This post provides you with a reference architecture and sample code artifacts to help you deploy and test tag-based invalidation. Let’s look at some use cases where tagging pages together might be […]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of optimizing your website to rank higher on search engine results pages. Since organic search is a primary way for viewers to discover online content, a solid SEO strategy involves optimizing your web application and maintaining good performance. As more than 92% of the internet searches happen on […]

Performance is a key driver of the design of the AWS global infrastructure. AWS has the largest global network infrastructure footprint of any cloud provider, and this footprint is expanding continuously to help our customers deliver better end-user experiences, rapidly expand operations to virtually any region or country, and meet their data locality and sovereignty […]

As an AWS customer, you might often want to understand the performance of the AWS Global Network. Visibility into how the AWS Global Network is performing at any given time can help you plan expansions into new AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZs), as well as streamline troubleshooting of performance-related incidents. Today, I’m happy to […]

Many types of organizations encounter DDOS attacks daily. DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, is an attack pattern that generates fake traffic to overwhelm organisation’s properties (websites, APIs, applications, etc.) and make it unavailable to legitimate users. They majority of these attacks involve a huge burst of fake traffic that exhausts the application’s resources (Memory […]

An update was made on October 15, 2024: With the release of Service Insertion for AWS Cloud WAN, customers can now create centralized inspection architectures without the need for static routes. Refer to the AWS Cloud WAN service documentation for service insertion for details. AWS Cloud WAN helps you build a unified network that connects […]

Organizations today use many ways to drive traffic to their websites and applications. This is important for new feature launches, marketing campaigns, advertising, and so on. One common approach uses HTTP/S redirects, where you send a user from one domain, or Uniform Resource Locator (URL), to another. Redirects are incredibly useful tools when moving websites, […]

When we wrote the previous post (Visitor Prioritization on e-Commerce Websites with CloudFront and Lambda@Edge) five years ago, Visitor Prioritization was a relatively new concept. Since then, we saw a huge need for traffic shaping, throttling, and request prioritizing, especially in the gaming and media industries. Of course, e-Commerce sites still require this capability for […]

Load balancers are a critical component in the architecture of distributed software services. AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) provides highly performant automatic distribution for any scale of incoming traffic across many compute targets (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Lambda, etc.), while enabling developers to adopt security best practices […]