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> The reality is every device between me and AWS is owned by my ISP. They know exactly which physical path ahead of time will get a message from my laptop to AW
by scarmig 4y ago
> The reality is every device between me and AWS is owned by my ISP. They know exactly which physical path ahead of time will get a message from my laptop to AWS.
Neither of these are true in general. And suppose AWS (or GCP, or Azure, or Cloudflare...) decides to add a new POP. How do they broadcast to your ISP and all the other ISPs in the world how exactly to send datagrams to it?