In the beginning, the EC2 team in Cape Town, South Africa developed a flat IP network for EC2 instances. Hypervisor-based firewalls separated tenants. Without any way to summarize IP addresses, the network admins’ had a difficult task ensuring developers could reach the instances. The year 2009 ushered in the VPC and the networking components that […]
The online publication The Information reported in mid-July 2018 that AWS was preparing to sell white box switches with built-in connectivity to its cloud offerings. The rumor depressed Cisco stock and triggered a call from Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins to AWS CEO Andy Jassy. AWS confirmed a Cisco spokeman’s statement that AWS is “not actively […]
In Werner Vogels’s keynote at the AWS NYC Summit, he announced the preview release of Bring Your Own IP Address. The VPC feature allows customers to use IP addresses they own as public addresses in the VPC. Is it hard to grasp what exactly this means and how it benefits AWS customers? Before delving in, […]
Last week Pratik Mankad, AWS Solutions Architect, confirmed that AWS is examining a native Transit VPC solution. In making the statement, he was responding to an audience member’s question in a joint AWS/Juniper/CBT Nuggets webinar on the use of Juniper vSRX in Transit VPC. For readers not familiar with Transit VPC, let’s cover what the […]
For those who follow public cloud, summer is the season of AWS Summits in the U.S. The Amazon Web Services Channel on YouTube posted the playlists for the DC Public Sector Summit and New York Summit. Konekti had several representatives at the Public Sector Summit and I discussed it in a previous post. We did […]
For those who follow public cloud, summer is the season of AWS Summits in the U.S. The Amazon Web Services Channel on YouTube posted the playlists for the DC Public Sector Summit and New York Summit. Konekti had several representatives at the Public Sector Summit and I discussed it in a previous post. We did […]
Amir and I represented Konekti at the AWS Public Sector Summit in DC last week. What a great event! I’ve enjoyed the summit events as they aren’t as hectic as the annual re:Invent conferences. We had the opportunity to chat with people we know in the public cloud community as well as meet new people. […]
A few years ago I had a great business idea…or at the least I thought I did. Like many ideas, it started with a conversation about something unrelated. One of my colleagues had developed an Ansible-based tool intended to automate deployment of new configurations to hundreds of routers and switches. I wanted to see if […]
IT workloads require uninterrupted connectivity whether in the cloud or physical data centers. Network engineers know from experience that the elimination of single points of failure in the network is the key to high availability. One Internet edge router? Let’s make that two with one ISP circuit homed to each. Think you can get away […]
AWS uses names such as us-west-1a to refer to a given availability zone (AZ) in a region. What you may not know is that AZ naming is intentionally inconsistent across accounts. In other words, the us-west-1a in the Konekti AWS production account is not necessarily the same as the us-west-1a in your account. AWS uses […]