Topic · 4 articles
Networking
DNS, content delivery, private networks and connecting them.
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VPC: Connecting Networks
How to connect VPCs with peering and Transit Gateway, reach AWS services privately through endpoints, link your office with VPN or Direct Connect, and control network costs, with a hands-on for the two most useful connections.
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VPC: Your Private Network
Open up the network your servers have been running in, and understand address ranges, subnets, internet and NAT gateways, route tables, safe access, two firewalls and flow logs, then build a VPC from scratch.
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CloudFront and Global Accelerator: Closer to Your Visitors
Why distance slows your site, how CloudFront keeps copies near your visitors, how to protect your origin and clear the cache, what Global Accelerator does for traffic that can't be cached, and when to choose each.
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DNS and Route 53: Your Site's Address
How a name like example.com turns into an address, what the record types mean, the difference between CNAME and Alias, Route 53's routing policies and health checks, and a hands-on that doesn't require buying a domain.