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It's way more than that. Yeah the base OS on the machine is Linux, but there's a lot of extra stuff they do all the way down to the hardware layer.
by joshAg 8y ago
It's way more than that. Yeah the base OS on the machine is Linux, but there's a lot of extra stuff they do all the way down to the hardware layer.
- rhacker 8y agoSo what does the likes of AWS (for example) use for load balancing for data coming into its various private clouds... f5s?
- ikiris 8y agothe short version is "magic". The long version is, "varying degrees of horror"
- kevan 8y agoThis article provides some info: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-weapon-custom-made-hardware-network/ https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...
- ignoramous 8y agoHere's the ever excellent Eric Brandwine explaining what AWS does at L3 wrt VPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qln2u1Vr2E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qln2u1Vr2E Here's the super versatile Colm Mac explaining what AWS does at L4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gc2DgBqo9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gc2DgBqo9U --- Google has been very open about their network infrastructure, here's a nice summary from 2015: https://ai.googleblog.com/2015/08/pulling-back-curtain-on-googles-network.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2015/08/pulling-back-curtain-on-go... and not mentioned in that blog... their NetworkLoadBalancer, Maglev: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-shares-software-network-load-balancer-design-powering-gcp-networking https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-shares-sof... (AWS equivalent of which would be HyperPlane: https://atscaleconference.com/videos/networking-scale-2018-load-balancing-at-hyperscale/ https://atscaleconference.com/videos/networking-scale-2018-l... allegedly based on S3's load balancer).