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Amazon India peering check

And here goes first blog post of 2018. Last few months went busy with some major changes in personal life. :) I looked into Amazon’s India connectivity with various ASNs tonight. Here’s how it looks like. (Note: Jump to bottom most to skip traces and look at the summary data).  

 

Traceroutes

Amazon India to Vodafone India

traceroute to 118.185.107.1 (118.185.107.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1 ec2-52-66-0-128.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com (52.66.0.128) 21.861 ms ec2-52-66-0-134.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com (52.66.0.134) 19.244 ms 19.233 ms
 2 100.64.2.200 (100.64.2.200) 14.789 ms 100.64.0.200 (100.64.0.200) 20.731 ms 100.64.3.12 (100.64.3.12) 13.187 ms
 3 100.64.0.193 (100.64.0.193) 14.418 ms 100.64.3.69 (100.64.3.69) 15.469 ms 100.64.3.67 (100.64.3.67) 15.946 ms
 4 100.64.16.67 (100.64.16.67) 0.343 ms 100.64.17.165 (100.64.17.165) 0.312 ms 100.64.17.199 (100.64.17.199) 0.313 ms
 5 52.95.67.213 (52.95.67.213) 1.942 ms 52.95.67.209 (52.95.67.209) 1.967 ms 52.95.67.213 (52.95.67.213) 1.935 ms
 6 52.95.66.218 (52.95.66.218) 4.998 ms 4.694 ms 52.95.66.130 (52.95.66.130) 4.650 ms
 7 52.95.66.67 (52.95.66.67) 1.752 ms 52.95.66.89 (52.95.66.89) 1.850 ms 1.806 ms
 **8 52.95.217.183 (52.95.217.183) 3.111 ms 3.102 ms 3.088 ms <- Amazon India**
 **9 182.19.106.204 (182.19.106.204) 3.426 ms 4.547 ms 4.537 ms <- Vodafone India**
10 118.185.107.1 (118.185.107.1) 2.035 ms 2.059 ms 2.039 ms

 

Peering with content networks in India

peering One of frequent email and contact form message I get my blog is about available content networks in India and where one can peer. There are certain content networks in India and of course most of the content networks have open peering policy and are usually happy with direct inter-connection (we call as “peering”) with the ISP networks (often referred to as “eyeball networks”). Some of these networks have a backbone which connects back to their key datacenter locations on their own circuits via Singapore/Europe, some other have simply placed their caching server where cache fill happens over IP transit. Based on publically known information across community and of course peeringdb, following content players are available in India and known to be open for peering: