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by Animats 1795 days ago
Right. What really makes this work is that Amazon builds their own specialized routers.[1] They have a control plane hidden from their customers, one which lets them set customer-visible MAC and IP addresses more or less arbitrarily.

'All problems in computer science can be solved by another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem'. - David Wheeler.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...