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
