aws How fast can you actually go on AWS? Pushing packets on the biggest network optimized EC2 instances If you've been following along, you know I've spent the last few months making packets go fast in Go. We looked at AF_XDP, DPDK, and most recently Mellanox Direct Andree Toonk 13 Sep 2026 • 9 min read
networking Navigating Infrastructure Outages: Battle Scars and Lessons Learned I've worked on numerous outages, each teaching me invaluable lessons. Inspired by Rogers' recent outage report, I wrote down some of my lessons learned. Andree Toonk 8 Jul 2024 • 8 min read
ipv4 AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5 Billion AWS grew its IPv4 estate with an additional 27 million IP addresses to now owning 128 Million IPv4 addresses. At a value of $35 per IPv4 address, the total value of AWS’ IPv4 estate is ~4.5 Billion dollars. An increase of $2 billion Andree Toonk 17 Sep 2023 • 5 min read
ipv4 IPv4 for sale - WIDE and APNIC selling 43.0.0.0/8 In this article, we'll look at the recent sale of the IPv4 range 43.0.0.0/8 by The Asia Pacific Internet Development Trust (APIDT). We'll look at who bought what and for how much? Andree Toonk 13 Oct 2021 • 5 min read
ipv4 AWS and their Billions in IPv4 addresses Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges. Andree Toonk 20 Oct 2020 • 4 min read
aws 100G networking in AWS, a network performance deep dive Loyal readers of my blog will have noticed a theme, I’m interested in the continued move to virtualized network functions, and the need for faster networking options on cloud Andree Toonk 15 Oct 2020 • 9 min read
aws Building A Smarter AWS Global Accelerator In this blog post, we’ll take a look at how we could build our own global accelerator. I’ve been thinking a lot about Global Accelerator and while it provides a powerful data plane, I think it would benefit from a smarter control plane. Andree Toonk 1 Dec 2019 • 7 min read
terraform Building a high available Anycast service using AWS Global Accelerator In my last two blogs, I wrote about building highly available applications using anycast on Packet and Stackpath. Today we’ll look at how to do this on AWS using its recently released service: Global Accelerator. Andree Toonk 2 Sep 2019 • 7 min read
