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AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets

Amazon Web Services · talk · Watch on YouTube

Networking & internet infrastructureCloud, DevOps & reliability

What it is

Eric Brandwine's AWS re:Invent 2015 session on how Amazon VPC networking works. It covers the problems the design solved, why traditional approaches do not scale, and the mechanisms used for customer isolation and VPC endpoints.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Considered a favorite deep dive into how AWS does virtual networking at L3 and why VPC hosts cannot snoop each other.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here's the ever excellent Eric Brandwine explaining what AWS does at L3 wrt VPC”

    Eric Brandwine on how AWS does L3 for VPC.

    ignoramous, 2019-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks”

  2. “talks on youtube ( is a fav)”

    AWS VPC networking talk, a favorite.

    colmmacc, 2017-11 · Recommendation · in “VPC Endpoints for Your Own Applications and Services”

  3. “Here is a good video explaining why”

    Explains why hosts in a VPC cannot snoop each other's traffic.

    thinkharderdev, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Redis 6.0 GA”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: aws vpc, networking, eric brandwine, network isolation, re:invent

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