Networking & Content Delivery
Tag: AWS Direct Connect
Hybrid inspection architectures with AWS Local Zones
Customers often ask about hybrid security inspection architecture patterns for latency-sensitive applications, where they want to run their workloads inside of AWS Local Zones, to perform security inspection but without compromising latency. In this post, we share some hybrid inspection architectures with traffic flows, where both workloads and security inspection appliances run inside of the […]
AWS Direct Connect and AWS Local Zones interoperability patterns
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” […]
Design patterns for interconnecting a telco data center to an Amazon VPC
Traditionally, communication service providers (CSPs) in the telecom industry have used a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) technique to segregate their data center (DC) networks per each network domains; for examples of domain such as Operation, Administration & Management (OAM), signaling, roaming, and user traffic networks. Each VRF domain in the data center must also […]
Migrating accounts between AWS Organizations from a network perspective
In this post, we’ll discuss the considerations, recommendations, and approach for migrating AWS accounts between AWS Organizations from a networking perspective. We’ll explain the behavior of AWS networking resources when AWS accounts are moved between Organizations. We’ll also analyze the behavior from different viewpoints including service availability, management and governance, as well as commercial and operations. […]
Connecting Networks with Overlapping IP Ranges
A common situation we see in customer networks is when there are resources with overlapping IP address ranges that must communicate with each other. Frequently this occurs when companies are acquired and have used the same private (RFC1918) address ranges. However, it can also occur when a service provider with a unique IP range must […]
How Repsol manages and monitors their AWS network with dashboards, alarms and automation
Large enterprises often deploy workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using multiple accounts. This helps isolate workloads, manage permissions more easily, and simplifies cost allocation. However, managing a multi-account environment can make your network topology more complex and requires additional monitoring and automation. At Repsol, a global multi-energy company present throughout the entire value chain, […]
AWS Networking and Content Delivery Recap of re:Invent 2021
Happy 2022 AWS Networking & Content Delivery enthusiasts! In December 2021, AWS hosted its 10th annual re:Invent conference. The Networking & Content Delivery team had 14 unique breakout sessions that were recorded and can be found on this playlist. In addition to these sessions, the Networking team had a leadership session presented by David Brown, […]
AWS Direct Connect monitoring and failover with Anomaly Detection
As enterprises move to the Cloud, having a reliable network connection to their on-premises data centers is fundamental. In this post, I show how to monitor your AWS Direct Connect links and initiate remediation (including automatic failover) when degradation in end-to-end path quality (packet loss, high latency) is detected. Multiple Direct Connect links at separate […]
Advanced Routing scenarios with AWS Direct Connect SiteLink
SiteLink, a new feature of AWS Direct Connect (DX), makes it easy to send data from one Direct Connect location to another, bypassing AWS Regions. Once you have made connections at two or more Direct Connect locations, you can turn on (or off) the SiteLink feature on Private/Transit VIFs and in minutes, a global, reliable, […]
Introducing AWS Direct Connect SiteLink
SiteLink, a new feature of AWS Direct Connect (DX), makes it easy to send data from one Direct Connect location to another, bypassing AWS Regions. If you recall, Direct Connect is a cloud service that links your network to AWS, bypassing the internet to deliver more consistent, lower-latency performance. Prior to SiteLink, it was not […]