Networking & Content Delivery

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 […]

Note: This post is published in collaboration with Georgi Stoev, Senior Technical Architect at Salesforce, and Ravi Patel, Senior Engineering Manager at Salesforce  In this post, we review how Salesforce Business Technology uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect SiteLink to build resilient hybrid architectures, facilitating global expansion and accelerating AWS Cloud migrations. We also […]

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 […]

Application Load Balancer (ALB) operates at layer-7 of the OSI model and allows you to load balance HTTP and HTTPS requests to its backend targets. In March 2025, we launched ALB and Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) integration that allows you to use predictable IP address blocks for your internet-facing ALBs. This feature helps […]

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, […]