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Doesn't AWS make their own NICs to support the security features in their custom network stack?
by positr0n 7y ago
Doesn't AWS make their own NICs to support the security features in their custom network stack?
- dogma1138 7y agoDo they build their on NICs for security or because it’s the cheapest way of segregating network traffic? As in relying on logical separation of client traffic rather than physical one so they don’t need as many physical ports, switches and most importantly network cables(often the highest actual cost in many data centers as far as networking goes)?
- Hikikomori 7y agoYou can get that with vlans. Buying gold plated cables?
- positr0n 7y agoNot at AWS's scale. You can only have 4094 VLANs.
- Hikikomori 7y agoPer switch. Much much more if you use vxlan. My point is that they're not doing it for separation as normal nic's are capable of that.
- dogma1138 7y agoPer LAN not necessarily per switch, overall getting out of the 16bit tag limit takes a lot of work. I’m not sure if anyone actually uses VXLAN yet. You didn’t actually made a point because you haven’t provided proof that what Amazon did for AWS wasn’t done because of operational requirements.