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New Features and Benefits with AWS – Quarterly Update – Q2– 2022

Apps Associates

Automatic recovery improves instance availability by recovering the instance if it becomes impaired due to an underlying hardware issue. Introducing Amazon EC2 M6id instances – M6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

we never initiate connections to the customers) on servers running Debian GNU/Linux. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node. This offered us greater stability and, due to hashes having higher entropy than IPs, uniform-enough distribution. It also allowed mirroring the setup for our IPv6 fabric.

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Optimizing Long?—?Haul TCP Throughout

taos

These are networks with high throughput (generally in excess of 10 megabits), but with high latency (due to geographic distance and speed-of-light delays). On Linux, this is accomplished by: sysctl –w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=1 To enable selective acknowledgments on a Linux host: sysctl –w net.ipv4.tcp_sack=1

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