""No one really cares about the network at the end of the day. It serves a function. You care about it when it's broken. But otherwise you want it to be out of your way.""
""This was in the very early days of the cloud... it was very clear that the way networks had been built wasn't going to scale into the future and that something fundamentally different had to happen.""
""He likened it to the mainframe business model, and said he preferred the server business model, where there's competition and open source software.""
Engineers at AWS in Cupertino are developing a new networking project aimed at making networks function seamlessly. Matt Rehder emphasizes that networks should operate like light switches, unnoticed until they fail. AWS has faced networking challenges since 2010, with James Hamilton highlighting the need for a scalable network model. He criticized the traditional vertically integrated networking stack for hindering innovation and advocated for a competitive, open-source approach similar to the server business model. The goal is to create networks that are efficient and unobtrusive.
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