I don't understand all of the hate in this thread. Most of the networking systems provided by AWS are as-needed. It may not be elegant, but it gets the job done

I don't understand all of the hate in this thread. Most of the networking systems provided by AWS are as-needed. It may not be elegant, but it gets the job done. Plus a lot of the AWS-specific components map directly to real networking concepts: AZ: cage; VPC: VLAN; PL: cross-account p2p VPN (more or less). Most everything else are normal networking constructs that you would see in a typical large-scale environment. The company I work for has a fairly complex global network, connected at many of our PoPs to AWS via DX. We utilize all of what you see in this diagram and each component serves a well-defined purpose. If this diagram looks overly complex to you, it's likely because you either aren't utilizing all of these, or at least not for their intended purpose, or you aren't a network engineer.