Mar 31, 2023

Amazon VPC Lattice: Simplifying Service-to-Service Connectivity, Security, and Monitoring

A blog post discussing the newly available Amazon VPC Lattice, which helps simplify service-to-service connectivity, security, and monitoring. The post also discusses the new capabilities available with VPC Lattice, such as the ability to define policies for network access, traffic management, and monitoring.

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Danilo Poccia

Chief Evangelist (EMEA) @AWSCloud. AWS, Serverless, IoT, AI/ML. Few pics, some music. My opinions. Complexity is a science. He/him.

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Amazon VPC Lattice is generally available today! It helps you simplify service-to-service connectivity, security, and monitoring. A 🧵 https://t.co/GJXHMLMPVH #AWS #Networking pic.twitter.com/WsZOWLTq57
— Danilo Poccia (@danilop) March 31, 2023
With VPC Lattice, you can define policies for network access, traffic management, and monitoring to connect compute services across instances, containers, and serverless applications. It works across different AWS accounts and VPCs with overlapping IPs.
— Danilo Poccia (@danilop) March 31, 2023
Compared to the preview, you have access to new capabilities:
— Danilo Poccia (@danilop) March 31, 2023
1/ Services can use a custom domain name in addition to the domain name automatically generated by VPC Lattice. When using HTTPS, you can configure an SSL/TLS certificate that matches the custom domain name.
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2/ The AWS Gateway API Controller gives a Kubernetes-native experience. It uses the Kubernetes Gateway API to let you connect services across multiple Kubernetes clusters and services running on EC2 instances, containers, and serverless functions. https://t.co/jmxq6uPwud
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3/ You can use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) or a Network Load Balancer (NLB) as a target for a service.
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4/ The IP address target type now supports IPv6 connectivity.
— Danilo Poccia (@danilop) March 31, 2023
We designed VPC Lattice to allow incremental opt-in over time. Each team in your organization can choose if and when to use VPC Lattice. Other applications can connect to VPC Lattice services using standard protocols such as HTTP and HTTPS.
— Danilo Poccia (@danilop) March 31, 2023
VPC Lattice is now available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland).
— Danilo Poccia (@danilop) March 31, 2023
By using VPC Lattice, you can focus on your application logic and improve productivity with consistent support for instances, containers, and serverless computing. Let me know what you build with it! https://t.co/3qM7OWOI1x
— Danilo Poccia (@danilop) March 31, 2023