Category: HAQM Route 53

AWS now supports DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) signing on public zones for HAQM Route 53 and validation for HAQM Route 53 Resolver. DNSSEC is a specification that provides data integrity assurance for DNS and helps customers meet compliance mandates (for example, FedRAMP and security standards such as NIST). When you enable DNSSEC signing for a […]

HAQM CloudWatch offers a centralized service to collect monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events. This provides a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers. When you have HAQM CloudWatch agents running on-premises, the default behavior is to export the collected metrics […]

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Introduction For the majority of applications, DNS resolution is an essential requirement, whether they’re running on premises or in the cloud. Inside each of your HAQM VPCs, name resolution is provided by the Route 53 Resolver service. Being the center […]

China is an important market for global companies. Both enterprises and startups conducting or expanding business globally are looking for ways to tap into the growing user market in China. To help accelerate the customer cloud journey and help them move quickly into the new markets, AWS China (Beijing) Region was launched in 2016, followed […]

Introduction DNS name resolution is a fundamental part of all on-premises and cloud networks. For customers with hybrid networks, additional infrastructure and configuration are needed for private DNS resolution to work seamlessly across environments. However, building this type of DNS infrastructure in a multi-account environment is complex. In this post, we show how to automate […]

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If you have ever used HAQM Route 53 health checks to monitor resources, you know that monitored resources must have public IP addresses. This is because Route 53 health checkers are public and they can only monitor hosts with IP addresses that are publicly routable on the internet. You may want to monitor your resources […]

I want to take some time to dive more deeply into a use case outlined in NET301 Best Practices for AWS PrivateLink. The use case involves using AWS Transit Gateway, along with HAQM Route 53 Resolver, to share AWS PrivateLink interface endpoints between multiple connected HAQM virtual private clouds (VPCs) and an on-premises environment. We’ve seen […]

A successful hybrid networking strategy goes beyond private network connectivity. It often requires dealing with independent internal zones both in HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (HAQM VPC) and on-premises. Such a strategy needs Domain Name System (DNS) naming that spans the entire network. Typically, this is managed by providing name resolution services in the same place […]