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How Magnite uses Amazon VPC Route Server and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to build dynamic hybrid-cloud routing

Magnite, the largest independent sell-side advertising company, runs an engineering team that processes more than a trillion ad requests each day across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its own data centers. In Magnite’s hybrid-cloud environment, network behavior is not background infrastructure. It’s part of the application. The team needs deterministic traffic steering, fast failover, and […]

Automating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtime

Automating CIDR expansion: Reducing IP exhaustion downtime

Learn how to build a serverless automation that monitors VPC IP utilization and expands CIDR capacity within minutes. This solution uses AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and IPAM to detect IP exhaustion risk and add secondary CIDRs with new subnets automatically. Three operating modes support environments with full IPAM management, IPAM for subnets only, or no IPAM at all. Deploy with a single SAM command and configure through VPC tags.

Extending SD-WAN Segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN – Part 2

Extending SD-WAN Segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN – Part 2

For organizations operating multi-tenant environments, regulated environments, or multiple business units, maintaining strict network segmentation between SD-WAN and AWS is essential for meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements. This is Part 2 of the two-part series on extending SD-WAN segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN. In Part 1, the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) based Connect attachment […]

Extending SD-WAN Segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN – Part 1

Extending SD-WAN Segmentation into AWS Cloud WAN – Part 1

For organizations operating multi-tenant environments, regulated environments, or multiple business units, maintaining strict network segmentation between SD-WAN and AWS is essential for meeting security, compliance, and operational requirements. Deploying SD-WAN virtual appliances and extending your segmentation through AWS Cloud WAN helps unify these segmented environments under a single, scalable global network. That said, segmentation is […]

Best Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2

Best Practices for TCP Connection Management on EC2

With sixth-generation Nitro (Nitro V6) instances, launched in June 2025, the default TCP connection tracking idle timeout changed from 432,000 seconds (5 days) to 350 seconds. Applications that hold idle connections open for long periods, such as database connection pools, Internet of Things (IoT) telemetry, and persistent microservice connections, may experience unexpected connection drops after […]

Enhanced security with DMZ architecture using Amazon VPC Block Public Access

Enhanced security with DMZ architecture using Amazon VPC Block Public Access

As organizations scale their AWS environments across multiple accounts and Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs), controlling internet access to cloud resources becomes challenging. With multiple accounts and network paths, maintaining secure network boundaries becomes a priority. A common security pattern is the demilitarized zone (DMZ) architecture, which isolates public-facing services from internal networks to reduce […]

Distributing Amazon VPC IP Address Manager costs to member accounts in AWS Organizations

Distributing Amazon VPC IP Address Manager costs to member accounts in AWS Organizations

In this post, we demonstrate how to distribute Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) costs from the IPAM owner account to the member accounts in AWS Organizations and implement chargeback. We walk through analyzing IPAM usage in AWS Cost Explorer from both member and management accounts. Furthermore, we cover key considerations and best practices for communication and […]

Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources

Custom domain names for VPC Lattice resources

Amazon VPC Lattice is a fully managed application networking service that lets you connect, secure, and monitor communication between your services and resources within and across VPCs and accounts. Today, we announce custom domain names for Lattice resources. In this post, we will examine this feature in detail. Resource owners can now specify an Fully […]

Dynamic routing using Amazon VPC Route Server

Amazon VPC Route Server enables dynamic routing within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You can use Amazon VPC Route Server for effective and intelligent traffic control between cloud applications and on-premises systems. Amazon VPC Route Server uses BGP to provide advanced control over traffic paths, especially for failures, and […]

Introducing security group referencing and enhanced DNS support for AWS Cloud WAN

In this post we cover the recently launched feature of security group referencing and enhanced DNS support on AWS Cloud WAN. This new feature allows you to create inbound security rules referencing security groups defined in other Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) attached to an AWS Cloud WAN within the same AWS Region and […]