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Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear
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FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.
Key facts
The company's current homegrown switch is capable of transmitting 51.2 terabits per second of traffic, via 64 ports operating at 800 gigabits per second
AWS's network consists of about two million devices and about 50-60 million optical links and transceivers
A network should be like a light switch, said Matt Rehder, VP of global network engineering at AWS, during a tour of AWS's Torre Avenue lab in late April
It includes about 20 million kilometers of terrestrial and subsea fiber at the moment, which Rehder says is enough to reach from the Earth to the Moon and back 25 times
Summary
They work in windowless hardware development labs at the center of the structure, surrounded by a ring of office cubicles that afford a view of scarce parking spaces and perimeter tree cover. Their latest project, which The Register and several other publications agreed not to discuss in advance of the pending official announcement, may get some attention. A network should be like a light switch, said Matt Rehder, VP of global network engineering at AWS, during a tour of AWS's Torre Avenue lab in late April. "No one cares about the network at the end of the day," he said. So that's been their mental model for the last 15 years, how do they get the network out of the way?