Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon VPC Lattice, a capability of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) that assists with traffic management in cloud environments.
AWS officially debuted Amazon VPC Lattice at AWS re:Invent 2022 last December.
- According to the AWS website,
Amazon VPC Lattice allows companies to establish policies for traffic
management, network access, and monitoring to facilitate the connection
of applications across AWS computing services.
- VPC
Lattice is said to integrate with AWS Identity and Access Management
(IAM) to provide users with more familiar authentication and
authorization capabilities.
- AWS
claims VPC Lattice can provide an overview of network connections and
track useful metrics, including the amount of traffic generated by each
application and network requests based on type.
- The GA of the service opens access to new capabilities,
which include the ability to use a custom domain name in addition to
the domain name automatically generated by VPC lattice, the option to
deploy the open-source AWS Gateway API controller, the choice to use an
Application Load Balancer (ALB) or a Network Load Balancer (NLB) as a
target for a service, and support for IPv6 connectivity.
