Chapter 6

AWS Networking

In This Chapter

arrow Introducing the AWS approach to networking

arrow Understanding instance network addressing

arrow Working with Direct Connect

arrow Using AWS Elastic IPs

Networking is a big deal in the AWS scheme of things. Without it, none of your AWS instances would be able to send and receive network traffic. However, in networking, as in all other pieces of the AWS design, Amazon has implemented a solution that’s clearly ingenious — but just as clearly different from the traditional solutions that are familiar to most people. And AWS has taken the path less traveled, for the same reasons it broke ground in other aspects of its design: to increase scale and foster automation.

When Amazon set out to develop its AWS offering, it thought “big” — really big. Actually, Amazon’s vision has always been focused on a future much more expansive than it is now. Though it started out as an online bookseller, it has always set its sights on becoming a general (and enormously profitable) online retailer. Its bookselling effort worked well because it was a convenient category that encountered ...

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