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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In our previous post on demystifying AWS Data Transfer services, we briefly explained how AWS is designed from its foundation to be the most secure way for our users to run their workloads in the cloud. In this post, we build on that and focus on how AWS has the largest implementation1 of Resource Public […]

Organizations face the complex challenge when managing and securing networks across multiple AWS Regions, cloud environments, and on-premises locations. AWS Cloud WAN helps users manage distributed networks through a unified approach. The service streamlines network management by providing a single network policy framework, segmentation capabilities, dynamic route propagation, and monitoring through a centralized dashboard. AWS […]

AWS launched Network Flow Monitor at re:Invent on December 1st, 2024, a new Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring feature that offers network performance monitoring across AWS managed services. With Network Flow Monitor, you can get near real-time visibility into network traffic between compute resources (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon […]

Introduction In today’s multi-cloud landscape, organizations face significant challenges in network configuration and resource management. Traditional tools often need deep, tool-specific knowledge, which leads to increased deployment times and configuration errors. The AWS Cloud Control API addresses these common cloud management challenges by providing a unified, language-agnostic interface for resource management. It offers immediate access […]