AWS re:Invent 2016: Another Day, Another Billion Packets (NET401)

In this session, we walk through the Amazon VPC network presentation and describe the problems we were trying to solve when we created it. Next, we walk through how these problems are traditionally solved, and why those solutions are not scalable, inexpensive, or secure enough for AWS. Finally, we provide an overview of the solution that we've implemented and discuss some of the unique mechanisms that we use to ensure customer isolation, get packets into and out of the network, and support new features like VPC endpoints.

[@J8K35T3R]

The 2015 delivery is much more engaging but this as in previous years is a fantastic insight into VPC networking.

[@larskinder1138]

Really good video, thank you for posting it.

[@mancal3822]

I know this is an old video, but it would be very important to know what the rate of connection scale on a per server actually is. Caching means nothing if the setup rate is very high. By setup I mean connection setup and teardowns of sessions.