Every AWS API call, CloudFront video stream, and Route 53 lookup crosses the same infrastructure, which AWS calls its border network. It now runs on a routing system rebuilt from scratch over several years. The system that tells traffic where to go The scale AWS reports, current as of the post: 39 regions, 123 availability zones, over 750 points of presence on six continents, peering with more than 5,000 outside networks, hundreds of terabits per … More →

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