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I was just wondering if this is something purely developed inside amazon or is it backed by an ADC like NetScaler or F5. does anyone know any detail ? I'm assum

I was just wondering if this is something purely developed inside amazon or is it backed by an ADC like NetScaler or F5. does anyone know any detail ? I'm assuming that classic load balancer is some third-party or old framework and this is something amazon developed internally.

Corrado 9y ago
I would assume that it's something developed internally at Amazon. Networking inside of AWS isn't standard fare and I doubt something like NetScaler or F5 products would be able to be used. Generally speaking, they aren't using TCP/IP behind the curtain, to move packets between nodes. AWS has even created their own routing hardware/software because no other company could do what they need at the scale that they need. See this video for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St3SE4LWhKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St3SE4LWhKo
- discodave 9y ago
  AWS & Amazon uses a LOT of routers from one of these vendors. Although, they would probably try and avoid baking it into a public-facing product like this.
  - ckozlowski 9y ago
    Not necessarily: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-weapon-custom-made-hardware-network/ https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...