AWSNetworks is an independent reference for AWS architecture decisions — the ones that are cheap to make correctly and expensive to change later.
Who it is for
Cloud architects, infrastructure and network engineers, and the technical people who have to defend a design decision to someone else. The material assumes you know what a VPC is and does not stop to explain it.
What it is not
- It is not certification material. Passing an exam and designing a production network reward different things, and this site optimises for the second.
- It is not a vendor pitch. No service is recommended here because of a commercial relationship, and nothing on this site is sponsored.
- It is not a substitute for current AWS documentation. Service limits, pricing and behaviour change; where a specific figure would change the recommendation, this site points you at the authoritative source rather than restating it.
On accuracy
Technical accuracy is treated as the product. Where a claim depends on a figure that moves — a quota, a price, a failover time — this site either records the date it was checked and tells you to confirm it against current AWS documentation, or describes the shape of the trade-off without inventing a number. A stale figure stated confidently is worse than no figure at all, and this site does not ask you to take a number on trust.
If you find something wrong here, it is a defect rather than a difference of opinion, and it will be corrected. See editorial standards.
Independence and trademarks
AWS Networks is an independent publication. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Amazon.com, Inc. or Amazon Web Services, Inc. It is not an AWS Partner, it is not part of the AWS Partner Network, and nothing published here is official AWS documentation or carries any AWS review or approval.
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We should be straight about the name itself. The AWS Trademark Guidelines (last updated 17 July 2026) say that third parties “will not register any domain name that contains an AWS Mark” and “will not incorporate AWS Marks into the names of your organization, products, or services”. This site’s domain and publication name do both. That use has not been authorised by Amazon, and the independence statement above does not cure it — a disclaimer addresses confusion about sponsorship, not the use of the mark in a name. The name may therefore change. We would rather say this plainly here than let a reader assume the position has been cleared.
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