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by spwa4 379 days ago
That's crazy. That would never work unless these are just a VLAN configured on existing switches. Even VXLAN wouldn't be able to do that 5 years ago.
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AWS developed their own custom overlay networking system. It embeds tenant IDs into the packets for isolation
Running out of IP addresses within that VPC is a real difficulty for services still using it.