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In this post we review how Amazon VPC Lattice can provide simple and secure access to an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment using Amazon Resource Names (ARNs). Prerequisites We assume you are familiar with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and VPC Lattice concepts and capabilities. If you are unfamiliar with VPC Lattice please review Amazon VPC […]

This post demonstrates how to use a new Amazon CloudWatch metric for Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints to make informed scaling decisions. We show you how to monitor Resolver Networking Interface (RNI) capacity and implement a scalable architecture that makes sure of reliable DNS resolution across your hybrid infrastructure. As organizations expand their hybrid cloud […]

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 […]

AWS Cloud WAN is a managed wide area networking (WAN) service that helps you build, manage, and monitor a unified global network connecting cloud and on-premises resources. In 2024, we launched service insertion, an AWS Cloud WAN feature that streamlines integrating security and inspection services into global networks. Using AWS Network Manager console or JSON policies, […]

Are you interested in securing your web applications and optimizing their performance to maintain a seamless user experience and safeguard against cyber threats? Application Load Balancers (ALBs) provide a powerful feature for modifying request and response headers, allowing you to fine-tune your application’s behavior in numerous ways. From bolstering security with essential headers such as […]

Information security practitioners use internet protocol (IP) address-based security controls such as block lists and rate-based rules to block malicious traffic. However, blocking malicious traffic solely based on an IP address can unintentionally block legitimate users, resulting in false positives. This is because many users share an IP address behind a network address translation (NAT) […]

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Configuring Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal autoshift observer notifications can be an enabler on your journey to architecting and operating resilient workloads on AWS, a key focus of the reliability pillar of AWS Well-Architected. AWS provides an array of design principles and services to guide users in building highly available and fault-tolerant architectures. A […]

Customers frequently use on-premises DNS infrastructure to resolve DNS queries for internal domains. In 2018, we announced Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints, which enable customers to integrate Route 53 with their on-premises DNS infrastructure for hybrid DNS resolution. In 2023, we improved this integration by providing customers the ability to encrypt DNS queries and responses […]

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift support for Application Load Balancers (ALB) with cross-zone load balancing enabled. This complements the support for Network Load Balancers (NLB) using cross-zone load balancing we announced previously. Now you can use zonal shift with both NLBs and ALBs, with or without cross-zone load balancing configured, […]