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In this post, we explore architectural patterns for implementing centralized internet ingress with inspection using AWS Cloud WAN. We examine different design considerations and integration strategies with centralized internet egress while walking through practical examples and deployment scenarios. We demonstrate how to use the AWS Cloud WAN core networking capabilities alongside other AWS networking services […]

Your on-call engineer gets paged at 2 AM. A payment service in Workload Account cannot reach a shared database in Shared Services Account. The Amazon CloudWatch alarm fired eight minutes ago. The engineer starts by checking route tables across two accounts, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) attachment states, security group rules on both sides, […]

AWS and Lumen simplify enterprise cloud connectivity with AWS Interconnect – last mile and Lumen Cloud Interconnect This post was jointly written by Rob Kennedy, Vice President of Network Services, Amazon Web Services, and Scott Yow, Senior Vice President of Product, Lumen Technologies For decades, the cloud and the network connecting to it have operated […]

Building resilient and fault-tolerant systems in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is essential for maintaining stable workloads. When designing cloud architecture, the ability to handle sudden traffic surges becomes a critical consideration. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) serves as the primary entry point for distributing both external and internal traffic efficiently across applications. In this post, we […]

Following our previous post, Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Network Load Balancers, this post explores architectural patterns to help optimize these expenses. Understanding inter-zone data transfer costs When network traffic flows across Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability Zones (AZs), whether from clients to Network Load Balancers (NLBs) or from NLBs to targets, AWS applies […]

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 […]

Written by Andrew DeVore, Vice President & Associate General Counsel, AWS. Since we pioneered cloud computing in 2006, AWS has been committed to giving customers the freedom to choose the technologies that best meet their needs. Whether that means using AWS services exclusively, combining multiple cloud providers, or moving workloads to on-premises infrastructure, we believe customers […]

In this post, we review how LexisNexis Risk Solutions modernized their Amazon Web Services (AWS) network by migrating from a legacy Transit Virtual Private Cloud (Transit VPC) architecture to a highly resilient global backbone network built with AWS Cloud WAN. We also dive deep into how AWS Cloud WAN helped LexisNexis Risk Solutions achieve streamlined […]

AWS Direct Connect announces three new CloudWatch metrics for monitoring virtual interface BGP session health and prefix counts. Learn how to use VirtualInterfaceBgpStatus, VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesReceived, and VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAdvertised to detect BGP failures, prevent prefix limit violations, and validate disaster recovery architectures without custom Lambda functions or API polling.

The Kubernetes SIG Network and Security Response Committee has announced that Ingress NGINX will be retired in March 2026. If your organization runs workloads on Kubernetes — whether on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed clusters on EC2, or hybrid environments — this upcoming change requires immediate planning and attention. This change impacts approximately […]