Security on the AWS edge at Enigma 2017

Ian Ward
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:00:00 -0500

I gave a presentation at AWS re:Invent in December, where I shared how Mapbox uses different AWS edge services to achieve high availability and low latency for our customers around the world. I get into details around how we use Route53 latency-based routing to run our origins in nine regions worldwide. I also explain how we analyze logs to make critical business decisions and improve security.

In the last segment of the presentation I explain a few details around security at the edge, and how we leverage the AWS WAF to defend against scraping and DDoS attacks.

On that note, Alex Ulsh, Kara Mahoney, and myself will be attending Enigma - Security and Privacy in Context in Oakland at the end of the month. I’m looking forward to the “Spam, Abuse, and Criminal Profit” and “Behaviors and Detection” tracks. Reach out if you’d like to catch up at the conference and talk scraping, bots, or anything else security. By the way, the Mapbox security team is hiring!

Check out my re:Invent presentation below.

How Mapbox Uses the AWS Edge to Deliver Maps for Mobile, Cars, and Web from Mapbox on Vimeo.