Networking & Content Delivery

Being able to analyze web traffic and user behavior is essential to understanding the impacts of new features, content updates, or current product iterations for websites and applications. Tracking website activity can provide insight into who visits your website, where they come from, and what content they view. A web beacon is a common technique […]

Update: February 1, 2024 – AWS now charges for public IPv4 addresses provided by AWS. This blog post has more details on this topic. Today AWS announced new charges for AWS-provided public IPv4 addresses beginning February 1, 2024. In this blog post, we introduce two new features launching today to help you track and monitor […]

In this post, we discuss how to architect Zero Trust based remote connectivity on AWS. Specifically, we will be exploring how to integrate Verified Access with CrowdStrike, a device trust provider. This solution builds upon the Okta-based identity provider integration previously published in this AWS post. Zero Trust is a conceptual model, and an associated […]

Update: Jan 14, 2025 – AWS launched built-in support for Direct Connect attachments without requiring a TGW. For more information, please see the following launch blog AWS Cloud WAN is a managed wide-area networking (WAN) service for building, managing, and monitoring a unified global network, as well as connecting resources running across your cloud and […]

In a modern distributed system, identifying where a problem has occurred is not a trivial task. In fact, it’s a key capability that an organization must master to maintain its competitiveness. Tracing is a great methodology to be used for this purpose. It creates a series of formatted logs with an identifier called Trace ID, which […]

Have you ever wondered why your Elastic IP (EIP) count is growing, and what’s behind the “ElasticIP:IdleAddress” line item on your AWS bill? This could be because there is an hourly charge for EIP addresses that are not associated with a running instance, when an EIP is associated with a stopped instance, or when there […]

In this post, we provide recommendations to improve network performance on AWS and hybrid networks. In today’s enterprise networking environment, it is becoming common for customers to have multi-gigabit connectivity to AWS either through AWS Direct Connect or over the Internet. Although network bandwidth is fundamental, several other factors come into play for network performance, […]

AWS WAF offers advanced features for filtering undesired web application traffic, such as Bot Control and Fraud Control. These intelligent threat mitigations include techniques such as client-side interrogations using JavaScript challenges or CAPTCHA, as well as client-side behavioral analysis. Implementing these techniques on a web page with a same-origin access is simple. When a cross-domain […]

In this blog post, we discuss how to connect on-premises and external services to Amazon VPC Lattice. We will go over architectural considerations and requirements for connecting services from trusted locations (on-premises), non-trusted locations (3rd party), and across AWS Regions. Then, we provide a solution that builds out a capability to facilitate this using AWS […]

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, […]