The Northern Virginia and Washington Joint Computer Society Chapter will host Tanvir Kaur from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an in-person technical talk on designing hybrid networks with AWS on May 22nd at the George Mason Regional Library at 6:30 PM EDT. This talk will be of interest to anyone tasked with securing resources on cloud and on-premises networks, as the topics apply broadly to cloud networking in general. Food and beverages will be available at the talk.
Attendees will be able to elevate their AWS networking expertise by learning how to design well-architected hybrid networks on AWS. The talk will begin by discussing the tradeoffs of using multi-availability zone (AZ) and multi-region architectures and how to build networks with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A VPC on AWS provides a critical component for building secure cloud networks by enabling individual computing resources (e.g., VMs, serverless functions, or containers) to run within a private network with connectivity configured by the network designer. For example, a designer may split a VPC across multiple availability zones within a region, opt to connect specific hosts or subnets on the VPC to the Internet, select AWS services, or an external on-premises network.
This session will explore design challenges that arise in these hybrid network settings when multiple VPCs and on-premises data centers are connected. To solve these challenges, we will discuss how to build hybrid connectivity for high availability and disaster recovery using services like AWS Direct Connect, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS CloudWan. Finally, the session will explore both single and multi-region network architectures and discover how to enhance observability and availability by utilizing active monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor. Monitoring networks with CloudWatch allows operators to gracefully manage their multi-region VPC and on-premises networks and recover from any incidents that may arise.
This talk will take place at the George Mason Regional Library. The main entrance will be closed, but attendees will be able to get to the talk through a side entrance.
Speaker(s): Tanvir Kaur,
Room: George Mason Meeting Room, Bldg: George Mason Regional Library, 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, Virginia, United States, 22003, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/485267