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Ably architecture, transports, and security

Ably architecture, transports, and security

Details on how Ably works and what makes us reliable and secure

Transports and connections

Do you support multiplexing and channel groups?

Which transports are supported?

Connection state recovery

Security

When I change a key's capabilities in the dashboard, will existing connections get those capabilities immediately?

For compliance reasons, I need to know how long will Ably store my data for

How can you restrict which channels a client can access?

If I need to whitelist Ably's servers from a firewall, which ports, IPs and/or domains should I add?

Do you support certificate and/or public key pinning for TLS connections?

"The security certificate has been revoked" error connecting to Ably

Recommendations for incrementally authorising new capabilities

Can a client emulate any client ID i.e. authenticate using a wildcard client ID?

Using capabilities to manage client access privileges on channels

Are messages sent to and received from Ably securely using TLS?

Authenticated and identified clients

Is it secure to send the access_token as part of the websocket url query params?

Token and Basic authentication

DOS attack prevention

Cross-platform symmetric encryption offered by the libraries

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Protocol support and protocol adapters

Using the MQTT protocol adapter

Why would I use SSE over Ably's realtime protocol?

Do you support SSE?

Why would I use MQTT over Ably's realtime protocol?

What are Ably protocol adapters and how do they work?

Using the Ably Pubnub protocol adaptor

Using the Ably Pusher protocol adapter

Can you help ease the pain of migration from another Data Stream Network?

Do you support MQTT? Are you protocol agnostic?

Do you support the PubNub protocol?

Do you support the Pusher protocol?

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Data centres

Where are Ably's servers and datacenters located around the world?

Ably architecture design

How is Ably different from Amazon SNS?

Why does Ably have concurrent channel limits?