Great write-up. And even if you use standard instances there is plenty to optimize. Kudos to Dropbox, Netflix, Cloudflare and everyone else for who demonstrates

Great write-up. And even if you use standard instances there is plenty to optimize. Kudos to Dropbox, Netflix, Cloudflare and everyone else for who demonstrates this level of transparency. And just for reference, AWS does provide enhanced networking capabilities on VPC: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-...