AWS Networking

1. Introduction
2. AWS Route 53
3. AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
4. AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)
5. Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
6. AWS WAF
7. NGINX
8. AWS Latency
9. AWS VPC
   1. AWS Client VPN
   2. Tailscale
10. AWS CloudFront
11. AWS API Gateway
12. Tweets

Introduction

• AWS Networking for Developers
• Elastic Network Adapter
• AWS Cloud Networking – Zero to Hero
• cloudonaut.io: What Architects Need to Know About Networking on AWS
• cloudonaut.io: Advanced AWS Networking: Pitfalls That You Should Avoid
• gprakash-sharma.medium.com: AWS Site-to-Site VPN with NAT
• Resolve DNS names of Network Load Balancer nodes to limit cross-Zone traffic
• github.com/seligman/aws-ip-ranges: AWS’s ip-ranges.json AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses. Tracking the history and size of AWS’s ip-ranges.json file. AWS provides a data file showing the current IP ranges their services use, called ip-ranges.json. This repository tracks changes to that file, and based off a trigger on the SNS topic automatically produces this chart showing how what percentage of the Internet’s IPv4 address space AWS is in control of.
• medium: Building a Global Network with AWS Transit Gateway Connecting branch and corporate offices into the AWS cloud to build a global network is necessary to provide ubiquitous accessibility for users. This solution uses AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Direct Connect, and AWS Accelerated Site-to-Site VPN to build a modern, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient WAN on top of the AWS global network.
• aws.amazon.com: Creating active/passive BGP connections over AWS Direct Connect
• towardsaws.com: Networking Basics in AWS
• aws.amazon.com: Network operations with AWS Network Manager Efficiently manage and monitor your AWS network
• Secure Connectivity from Public to Private: Introducing EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint

AWS Route 53

• How do I transfer a domain to AWS from another registrar?
• Configuring Route 53 for cost protection from NXDOMAIN attacks

AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

• AWS Summit Series 2016 | London: Deep Dive on Elastic Load Balancing
• docs.aws.amazon.com: What Is Elastic Load Balancing?
• ably.com: Balancing act: the current limits of AWS network load balancers
• luis-sena.medium.com: Automated AWS Load Balancer Warm-Up Automate AWS load balancer to avoid issues with huge traffic spikes
• dashbird.io: AWS Elastic Load Balancing from a Serverless perspective Should you switch your AWS API Gateway out for an Application Load Balancer (ALB)? A cheat sheet for all you need to know about ALB:
  • Pricing
  • Regions
  • Transformations
  • Limits
  • Permissions
  • Health

AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)

• Application Load Balancer
• aws blogs - New – AWS Application Load Balancer
• medium: 10 reasons why you should think about using an AWS Application Load Balancer
• Introducing the AWS Load Balancer Controller
• Fine-tuning blue/green deployments on application load balancer
• faun.pub: End To End SSL Encryption With AWS Application Load Balancer
• aws.amazon.com/about-aws: Application Load Balancer enables configuring HTTP client keepalive duration

Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)

• Centralized Traffic Inspection with Gateway Load Balancer on AWS

AWS WAF

• AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support lower rate limits

NGINX

• NGINX Plus on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment

AWS Latency

• Find the fastest region from your location Check AWS response time from you browser. Sharing my mini-project, it measures response time from AWS services from different regions base on your location. let me know what you think.
• Linkedin Discussion
  1. Don’t do just a single check, the first check will be a lot slower as DNS lookups will need to be done, etc.
  2. I’d recommend doing at least 3 checks getting an average.
• Run 6 checks (with a random 3-10 second delay between each one), the first can be ignored, the highest one is also ignored (as a likely outlier), then for the next 4 show the minimum, maximum and average (mean).
• medium.com: Optimizing Latency and Bandwidth for AWS Traffic

AWS VPC

• AWS-VPC
• linuxjournal.com: AWS EC2 VPC CLI
• Build a Modular and Scalable Amazon VPC Architecture with New Quick Start Build a modular virtual network architecture with Amazon VPC in 5 minutes with our new Quick Start
• Specifying the VPC for your Amazon RDS DB Instance You can now easily change the Amazon VPC used by your Amazon RDS DB instance!
• awsfundamentals.blogspot.com: AWS Virtual Private Cloud - VPC
• Reduce Cost and Increase Security with Amazon VPC Endpoints
• ealtili.medium.com: Deepdive to VPCs and Connections to VPC
• Centralize access using VPC interface endpoints to access AWS services across multiple VPCs
• betterprogramming.pub: AWS: Creating a VPC With an Auto-scaling Group Using T2.micro Instances Maintain a self-healing architecture
• alanblackmore.medium.com: What is AWS VPC Peering? 🌟
• awstip.com: Setting Up AWS VPC Endpoint Connection
• towardsaws.com: How to centralize VPC endpoints in AWS

AWS Client VPN

• cloudonaut.io: AWS Client VPN: Connected with the Cloud

Tailscale

• tailscale.com: Connect to an AWS VPC using subnet routes

AWS CloudFront

• Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
• aws.amazon.com: Authorization@Edge using cookies: Protect your Amazon CloudFront content from being downloaded by unauthenticated users

AWS API Gateway

• alexdebrie.com: A Detailed Overview of AWS API Gateway
• towardsaws.com: Accessing a Private REST API from another Private REST API in AWS API Gateway In this post, we’ll see how we can access a Private REST API From Another Private REST API In AWS API Gateway. We will create 2 EC2 Instances(EC2A and EC2B) and 2 API Gateways(APIA and APIB). EC2A will be accessing EC2B with following workflow.
• faun.pub: Using AWS API Gateway As Proxy To Our Internal Application
• aws.amazon.com: Architecture patterns for consuming private APIs cross-account Architecture patterns for consuming private APIs cross-account over AWS PrivateLink

Tweets

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