Networking & Content Delivery

Introduction Your organization may have a sprawling network built with variety of topologies. As your organization begins to embrace cloud, you extend your network to AWS using a hybrid connectivity architecture. Over time, traffic patterns change as more and more of your applications move to the cloud. This means that you can start transforming your […]

This is a blog post by FactSet’s Cloud Infrastructure team, Gaurav Jain, Nathan Goodman, Geoff Wang, Daniel Cordes, Sunu Joseph, and AWS solutions architects Amit Borulkar and Tarik Makota. 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 […]

In this blog, we will walk through the steps to accelerate your centralized deployment of AWS Network Firewall using a new deployment automation solution—AWS Network Firewall deployment automation for AWS Transit Gateway. We will also discuss common use cases for AWS Network Firewall in a centralized architecture that uses AWS Transit Gateway. Though this post […]

Introduction In this article, I will walk you through the steps to configure Amazon API Gateway in combination with AWS Global Accelerator to present Internet-facing API via static IP addresses to end users. This design addresses the need for static IP safelisting and also provides additional performance benefits to end users by sending user’s traffic […]

This post will describe how to use multicast and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), two of the newer features of AWS Transit Gateway, to enable applications and services to discover each other automatically when running in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) environments. Service discovery means that a service client, such as a network file […]

AWS Transit Gateway simplifies your network and puts an end to complex peering relationships. It acts as a cloud router and scales elastically based on the volume of network traffic. It can centralize connections (known as attachments) from your on-premises networks, and attach to Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) Virtual Private Networks (VPN), AWS Direct […]

Introduction Organizations are moving from traditional monolithic data center networks to an agile application programming interface (API) driven cloud network. As a result, customers are looking for an efficient and reliable way to make changes to their cloud network infrastructure. They want to adopt a pipeline driven approach to make any network changes following DevOps […]

Remote work has become more common over the last couple of years. For IT teams, this accelerated the need to support the secure distribution and collection of files and software updates for global teams in multiple locations. Additionally, organizations continue to partner with vendors or 3rd parties to distribute or collect data for analytics or […]

This post shows how to integrate and automate network testing as part of AWS infrastructure deployment. We will show you how to use a new tool, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Network Tester, to perform connectivity testing between a source resource and a destination resource in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). It supports testing resources deployed via AWS Management Console, SDK, Command Line Interface (CLI) or via a CI/CD pipeline.

Introduction Many AWS customers use multiple AWS Accounts to make it easier to manage permissions and allocate costs to different groups or departments. When multiple accounts share one AWS Direct Connect interface, customers need to understand how Port-hour and outgoing Data Transfer costs are allocated. These accounts may be independent, or part of the same AWS […]