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In this post, you’ll learn how Scale to Win configured their network topology and AWS WAF to protect against DDoS events that reached peaks of over 2 million requests per second during the 2024 US presidential election campaign season. The post details how they implemented comprehensive DDoS protection by segmenting human and machine traffic, using tiered rate limits with CAPTCHA, and preventing CAPTCHA token reuse through AWS WAF Bot Control.

This post demonstrates how the Issuer Solutions business of Global Payments, as a service provider, implemented cross-Region failover for an AWS PrivateLink backed service exposed to their customers. Their solution enables failover to a secondary Region without customer coordination, reducing Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

In this post, you will learn how Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, Maya, the Philippines’ leading fintech company and digital bank, built an API management platform to address the growing complexities of managing multiple APIs hosted on Amazon API Gateway.

In this post, we explore an intermediate strategy between the pilot light and the warm standby strategies: pilot light with reserved capacity. You can use this strategy to reserve compute capacity in a secondary Region while also limiting cost.

This post explores how Amazon Bedrock can transform property management operations and optimize costs. We examine a practical approach to tackle challenges such as processing high volumes of lease agreements, maintaining compliance with varied regulatory requirements.

In Part 1 of this blog series, we demonstrated why tiering and throttling become necessary at scale for multi-tenant REST APIs, and explored tiering strategy and throttling with Amazon API Gateway. In this post, Part 2, we will examine tenant isolation strategies at scale with API Gateway and extend the sample code from Part 1. […]

Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers adopt throttling as a common technique to protect a distributed system from spikes of inbound traffic that might compromise reliability, reduce throughput, or increase operational cost. Multi-tenant SaaS systems have an additional concern of fairness; excessive traffic from one tenant needs to be selectively throttled without impacting the experience of other […]

Organizations frequently need access to quick visual insight on the status of complex workflows. This involves collaboration across different systems. If your customer requires assistance on an order, you need an overview of the fulfillment process, including payment, inventory, dispatching, packaging, and delivery. If your products are expensive assets such as cars, you must track […]

Organizations have been collecting text data for years. Text data can help you intelligently address a range of challenges, from customer experience to analytics. These mixed language, unstructured datasets can contain a wealth of information within business documents, emails, and webpages. If you’re able to process and interpret it, this information can provide insight that […]

Amenity Analytics develops enterprise natural language processing (NLP) platforms for the finance, insurance, and media industries that extract critical insights from mountains of documents. We provide a scalable way for businesses to get a human-level understanding of information from text. In this blog post, we will show how Amenity Analytics improved the continuous integration (CI) […]