Day Two Cloud 089: Connect All The Cloud Things – AWS Networking In 2021

Cloud networking has changed in the past two or three years as major cloud providers have rolled out extensive new features and capabilities for connecting users and workloads to public cloud applications and services. Cloud networking is moving well beyond basic IPSec tunnels. Today’s episode goes deep on AWS networking to find out what’s new in areas including cloud and SD-WAN, IPv6, edge connectivity, network firewalls, and gateway load balancers. We also discuss major network architecture mistakes that people make, including applying single-data-center thinking to multiple availability zones and regions. Our guest is Nick Matthews, a network engineer and product manager who works on the AWS VPC team. Show Links: @nickpowpow – Nick Matthews on Twitter Heavy Networking 433: An Insider’s Guide To AWS Transit Gateways – Packet Pushers AWS re:Invent 2020: Networking best practices & tips with the Well-Architected Framework – YouTube Deployment models for AWS Network Firewall – AWS Architecture with an internet gateway and a NAT gateway – AWS New – AWS Systems Manager Session Manager for Shell Access to EC2 Instances – AWS   Transcript: [00:00:09.140] – Ethan Welcome to Day Two Cloud. Boy, do we have a nerd fest for you today. We are going deep into AWS networking in 2021. That is, What’s changed. What’s been going on? What’s the right way to connect up all your AWS things? And our guest works deep in the bowels of AWS on the networking team, Nick Matthews, and he’s been on the Packet Pushers podcast network before. And Nick’s got so much to say about so many things. And I feel like, Ned, I almost feel like we ran out of time. There was a lot going on. [00:00:41.120] – Ned We definitely could have gone on for longer. And I was really happy to get out one of my personal gripes, which is NAT gateways. So I got to I got to hassle him about NAT gateway pricing for a little bit, and he took it in stride and actually had very good reasons for why it costs what it does. So I guess, listener, you just have to find out what those reasons are. [00:00:58.640] – Ethan Enjoy this show with Nick Matthews from AWS Networking. [00:01:02.810] – Ethan Nick, welcome to the show, man. And I know you’ve been on the packet pusher’s network before, but for the folks that have not met you, who are you and what do you do? [00:01:12.170] – Nick Yeah, Nick Matthews, product manager here at AWS, been here for about five years, I used to do a bunch of partner networking stuff and now I’m on the VPC team. So I just generally tell people I do network stuff. [00:01:26.690] – Ethan I’m just going to say VPC team. I think you just gave it away. You’re an AWS networking nerd. Through and through, through and through. All right, well, Nick, we were talking before we hit the record button, kicking around the idea of how cloud networking has changed in the last two or three years, because that’s that’s about how long it’s been since you were ...