Networking & Content Delivery

In multi-Region AWS Cloud WAN deployments, customers deploy centralized architectures for use cases such as traffic inspection, hybrid connectivity (using AWS Transit Gateways and AWS Direct Connect), and internet egress. For internet egress, you may use a single egress VPC per AWS Region or per geography (collection of AWS Regions), for example, Americas (AMER GEO), […]

This blog post is written by Tanya Pahuja and Sumit Bhardwaj, Technical Account Managers – AWS Enterprise Support, with Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS For consumer-facing websites and mobile apps, the speed at which the content loads on the user’s screens directly impacts the user’s browsing experience and the success of your business. If […]

Customers use AWS edge services to improve the performance and the security of their websites. In certain cases, they appreciate being able to quickly set up a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to stop a DDoS attack targeting their website, or to decrease page load times. And they prefer doing […]

Organizations are adopting IPv6 because of public IPv4 address and private IPv4 address (RFC1918) space exhaustion caused by the ongoing growth of the internet, particularly in the fields of mobile applications, Internet of Things (IoT), and application modernization. This is motivating many AWS customers to transition from IPv4-only to dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) and IPv6-only […]

AWS provides hundreds of services to help you easily deploy resources and applications globally in minutes. This helps you rapidly expand your customer base across the world. At the time of writing this post, the AWS Cloud spans 102 Availability Zones (AZs) within 32 geographic AWS Regions around the world. As AWS is continuously growing, […]

Amazon Route 53 Domains is a domain registration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is a component of the larger Route 53 service, which is AWS’s scalable and highly reliable DNS service. As a developer-centric registrar, Route 53 Domains differentiates itself by catering to the needs of developers and cloud engineers. It does […]

AWS WAF helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. Configuring AWS WAF in a cost-effective way has been a frequent topic of discussion among our customers. In this post, learn how to use the different components of AWS WAF to secure your web […]

This is a post by FactSet, Sreekanth Sarma Vanam – Director of Network Engineering, Saurabh Gadi – Principal Systems Engineer and AWS Solutions Architects, Mony Kiem and Amit Borulkar. In Factset’s own words, “FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world. These solutions provide instant […]

Introduction Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) use Network Address Translation (NAT) so resources in private subnets can communicate with resources in the internet, other VPCs, on-premises networks, or even the same VPC using the NAT Gateway’s IP address. Amazon VPC NAT Gateway is managed by AWS and addresses this need while providing redundancy, scalability, […]

Internet users increasingly expect responsive web applications and APIs with lower latency and higher availability. Additionally, publicly accessible web applications and APIs are exposed to threats such as commonly occurring vulnerabilities described in the OWASP Top 10, SQL injection, automated requests, and HTTP floods (Denial of Service (DoS)) that can affect availability, compromise security, or […]