Have gotten into the habit of making annual peering requests to Amazon asking turn up a session on a shared IXP peering.  Once was able to get a peering session turned up, no traffic was ever shifted onto it before we moved out of that carrier hotel a year or so later.  The amazon peering email box does have humans surfing it. 

Over the years a number of network operators have mentioned getting little response from Amazon about peering requests. 

For a company like Amazon they have little reason to do peering with small scale operators.  They already peer with the tier 1’s and assume I will do what I need to balance my bits.  The fancy algorithms they use to balance traffic around does allow them to operate a decent network with fewer staff and less links to the small ISPs.  Just a network operator here, trying to get my bytes across the wire. 

Enjoy your weekend!

Kevin Burke

802-540-0979

Burlington Telecom

200 Church St, Burlington, VT

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+kburke=burlingtontelecom.com@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Lincoln Dale
Sent: Thursday, February 3, 2022 12:20 PM
To: Kelly Littlepage <kelly@onechronos.com>
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Subject: Re: Amazon peering revisited

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 8:22 AM Kelly Littlepage via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

Hi all, a nanog thread started on November 23, 2018 discussed the challenges of getting Amazon peering sessions turned up. Has anyone had luck since/does anyone have a contact they could refer me to — off-list or otherwise? The process of getting PNI in place with other CSPs was straightforward, but I haven't heard back from AWS after a month and several follow-ups. Our customers would really benefit from us getting this sorted.

There are many folks that here that are in AWS. Assuming you have followed what is in https://aws.amazon.com/peering/ (and https://aws.amazon.com/peering/policy/) then send me details privately about what/when/who and I'll reach out internally to the relevant folks.