Networking & Content Delivery
Category: HAQM VPC
Calculating data transfer leveraging HAQM VPC flow logs
Introduction There are several factors that contribute towards your overall costs incurred in AWS cloud. When it comes to networking, many customers ask about data transfer charges. You pay a Data Transfer charge when you send data out from AWS to Internet, between AWS Regions, or between Availability Zones (AZ). Today, there are multiple ways […]
How FactSet handles networking for 1000+ AWS accounts
This is a blog post by FactSet’s Cloud Infrastructure team, Gaurav Jain, Nathan Goodman, Geoff Wang, Daniel Cordes, Sunu Joseph, and AWS solutions architects Amit Borulkar and Tarik Makota. In Factset’s own words “FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world. These solutions provide instant […]
Automating service discovery using AWS Transit Gateway Multicast with IGMP
This post will describe how to use multicast and Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), two of the newer features of AWS Transit Gateway, to enable applications and services to discover each other automatically when running in HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (HAQM VPC) environments. Service discovery means that a service client, such as a network file […]
Automating connectivity assessments with VPC Reachability Analyzer
If your network architecture is complex, and you’d like to quickly identify application connectivity issues due to infrastructure changes, then the new HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Reachability Analyzer can help. Often times, it is not always clear if changes to VPC infrastructure are affecting connectivity to applications and other AWS services. By implementing automated […]
VPC sharing: key considerations and best practices
Introduction It has been over 2 years since we launched VPC sharing at re:Invent 2018. I previously wrote about this capability in a “VPC sharing: A new approach to multiple accounts and VPC management” blog post. That blog covers everything you need to know about where to start, the benefits of VPC sharing, and why we decided […]
Scaling VPN throughput using AWS Transit Gateway
A virtual private network (VPN) is one of the most common ways that customers connect securely to the AWS Cloud from on-premises or data center environments. Customers establish VPN connectivity to AWS using AWS managed VPN solutions like AWS Site-to-Site VPN, transit gateways, or partner solutions running on HAQM EC2. In this post, we demonstrate […]