On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Michael Helmeste <elf@ubertel.net> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Morrow Subject: Re: AWS Elastic IP architecture [...] i sort of doesn't matter right? it is PROBABLY some form of encapsulation (like gre, ip-in-ip, lisp, mpls, vpls, etc) ... [...]
I don't know how the public blocks get to the datacenter (e.g. whether they are using MPLS) but after that I think it is pretty straightforward. All of the VMs have only one IPv4 address assigned out of 10/8. This doesn't change when you attach an Elastic IP to them.
right, so they encap somwhere after between 'tubez' and 'vm'. and likely have a simple 'swap the ip header' function somewhere before the vm as well.
All that is happening is that they have some NAT device somewhere (maybe even just a redundant pair of VMs?) that has a block of public IPs assigned to it and they
i'd question scalability of that sort of thing... but sure, sounds like a reasonable model to think about.