Category: AWS Global Infrastructure

The problem: choosing the right Region when geography gets complicated Considering network latency before deployment, many teams follow a basic rule: pick the AWS Region closest to their users. But real-world constraints can make this decision more complex than it appears. It may require actual latency measurement rather than geographic assumptions. This post provides a […]

We recently announced that the AWS Load Balancer Controller now supports AWS Global Accelerator through a new declarative Kubernetes API. This integration brings the power of AWS’s global network infrastructure directly into your Kubernetes workflows, enabling improved application performance by up to 60% for users worldwide, all without leaving your Kubernetes environment. AWS Global Accelerator […]

In our previous post on demystifying Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Transfer services, we discussed how we designed our global network infrastructure to be highly available, resilient, and performant. In this post, we discuss the AWS approach to Inbound Traffic Engineering (TE). The AWS global network infrastructure operates at a massive scale. In 2024, AWS […]