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Role of the AWS Network
- The presenters, Steven Callahan and Joi Vasquez, are Engineers in the Amazon Infrastructure Organization.
- They aim to build a network that is so performant and reliable that it gets out of the way of customers' workloads.
- To achieve this, they need to go deeper into ownership and make changes at multiple points along the infrastructure.
Design Goals and Principles
Flexibility
- The network needs to cater to a wide range of emerging workloads, from machine learning and AI to video streaming and online gaming.
- It must handle diverse requirements for latency, bandwidth, and redundancy.
Security and Availability
- Security is a top priority, including physical security, encryption, and tools for data center technicians to prevent mistakes.
- Availability and consistency are crucial, as the network underpins all AWS services.
- Resiliency is essential, with fast failover and controlled failure modes.
Capacity Management
- The capacity management system predicts traffic trends and scales the network accordingly, months in advance.
- It embeds resilience and consistency targets to ensure the network meets performance goals.
Features and Enablement
- The network design is driven by the features and requirements of future services and workloads.
- It aims to enable new capabilities, such as improved security, reduced latency, or support for new hardware.
Automation and Software Advancements
Automation
- Automation is a key design principle, as it can scale horizontally and react faster than human operators.
- The network deployment, monitoring, and even complex operations like traffic engineering are automated.
Blast Radius Containment
- Failures are designed to be isolated and not cause a "last blast" impact on the entire network.
- This is achieved through the network's inherent segmentation, such as availability zones, and further innovations.
Avoiding Surprises
- The network is designed in a modular, "fabric" approach to avoid hitting unknown limits as scale increases.
- This allows the control plane to handle a known and manageable amount of scale.
Intent-Driven Network
- An intent-driven network translates high-level concepts into low-level configurations, improving availability.
- Examples include outbound traffic engineering, inbound traffic nudging, and wide-area network traffic optimization.
Physical Innovations
Standardized Building Blocks
- The network is built using standardized racks and components, designed and specified by the infrastructure team.
- This includes customized patch panels, connectors, and fiber management to optimize the deployment process.
Advanced Fiber Technologies
- Innovations in fiber optics, such as hollow-core and multi-core fibers, enable the network to extend further while maintaining low latency.
- These technologies are integrated into the existing fiber infrastructure, leveraging the team's ownership of the full stack.
Conclusion
- The presenters emphasize the importance of deep ownership, which allows them to make changes at multiple levels of the infrastructure.
- They encourage the audience to provide feedback and suggestions on topics they would like to hear more about in the future.
