Networking & Content Delivery

In our previous post External Connectivity to Amazon VPC Lattice, we discussed how your applications could consume VPC Lattice services from clients external to Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as cross-Region patterns. At re:Invent 2024, AWS made three significant announcements in the application networking space: releasing the VPC resources capability for AWS PrivateLink, support for accessing these resources […]

Introduction AWS Cloud WAN enables organizations to build and manage a global network across multiple AWS Regions. Through AWS Cloud WAN service insertion, you can integrate security appliances, either AWS-managed (such as AWS Network Firewall) or third-party solutions, to inspect and control traffic between network segments or outbound to the internet. Although AWS Cloud WAN […]

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a security feature implemented by web browsers that controls which web pages or web applications are allowed to make requests to a different domain or origin. In other words, CORS is a mechanism that prevents a web page hosted on one domain from making requests for resources from a different […]

Note: This post references the use of multi-tenant or shared distributions, which has recently released more formalized support through SaaS Manager for CloudFront. Check out the latest blog to see how multiple domain delivery can leverage SaaS Manager. Amazon CloudFront is the AWS native Content Delivery Network (CDN) that reduces latency, improves availability, and secures […]

In late 2024 we launched several enhancements to AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN services: Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) support for Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN Appliance Mode Routing Enhancement for improved Availability Zone (AZ) awareness Per-AZ Amazon CloudWatch Metrics AWS Cloud WAN: Service Insertion Operational Enhancement In this post, we explain how […]

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Route 53 authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) service for public hosted zones in AWS GovCloud (US). You can now create and manage public hosted zones in AWS GovCloud (US) to manage DNS for internet-facing applications and create alias records with targets to AWS services such […]

This blog is co-authored with Jenny Zhou, Principal Enterprise Architect at United Airlines In this blog, we will explore how United Airlines implemented an enterprise-wide resilience program using Amazon Web Services (AWS). United Airlines, a major U.S. airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, announced its United Next plan in 2021. United Next is the airline’s plan […]

Note: This post is published in collaboration with Georgi Stoev, Senior Technical Architect at Salesforce, and Ravi Patel, Senior Engineering Manager at Salesforce  In this post, we review how Salesforce Business Technology uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect SiteLink to build resilient hybrid architectures, facilitating global expansion and accelerating AWS Cloud migrations. We also […]

Applications face a variety of security threats, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, web application exploits like SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), and bot traffic. In this post, to help protect your applications against these threats, we demonstrate how to build your first web access control list (web ACL) in AWS WAF. AWS […]

From startups to enterprises, thousands of software as a service (SaaS) solutions harness the power of Amazon CloudFront to secure, scale, and accelerate their applications globally. Building on over 16 years of innovation, we are introducing Amazon CloudFront SaaS Manager, a long-awaited capability for CloudFront customers. CloudFront SaaS Manager revolutionizes how platform providers manage multi-domain […]