Re: Amazon Peering

[Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com>]

I recently had an experience of getting them to participate at local IX in
Mumbai for which I am volunteering and experience was overall bad. Long
delays in discussion to finally the cross-connects. During the process, we
were asked for providing "our end IP" even when they told us that they no
intention to peer at the route server. Somehow the process was confusing
peering at IX Vs PNI.

Not sure for other locations but in India, they have a process where they
expect IX operator to coordinate in setting up bilateral BGP sessions which
I personally feel isn't fair in the world of peeringdb, website and email
contacts!

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 1:45 AM Darin Steffl <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>
wrote:

> We've been waiting since December 2017 with multiple followup. Their most
> recent response said that February would probably be when they turn us up,
> 15 months after our first request.
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 1:46 PM Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net wrote:
>
> > Let us know your success as well. I'll hold off following up on my
> > requests until I see that other people are successful. I don't want to
> > contribute to flooding them with requests.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----
> > Mike Hammett
> > Intelligent Computing Solutions
> > http://www.ics-il.com
> >
> > Midwest-IX
> > http://www.midwest-ix.com
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From: *"Tom Beecher" <beecher () beecher cc>
> > *To: *"Jason Lixfeld" <jason+nanog () lixfeld ca>
> > *Cc: *"North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog () nanog org>
> > *Sent: *Thursday, January 24, 2019 1:38:51 PM
> > *Subject: *Re: Amazon Peering
> >
> > Thanks Jason. I'll have my peering team take another crack at reaching
> > out and see what happens. Appreciate it!
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:21 PM Jason Lixfeld <jason+nanog () lixfeld ca>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > We circled back with them yesterday on a request we made in late
> > > November where at the time they said they wouldn’t be turned up until 2019
> > > due to holiday network change freeze.
> > >
> > > They responded within about 4 hours, thanked us for our patience and
> > > understanding and said we should expect them to be turned up in about 6
> > > weeks, which is apparently their typical timing.
> > >
> > > On Jan 24, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
> > >
> > > I hate to necro-thread , but has anyone seen any movement from Amazon on
> > > this? I just got a Strongly Worded Message about it, and according to my
> > > peering team , it's been radio silence for months.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 12:32 PM JASON BOTHE via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is a note I received on Oct18 when checking on a peering request
> > > > submitted on Aug7..
> > > >
> > > > “Apologies for the delays here. We have temporarily frozen IX peering
> > > > as we revise some of our automation processes. I’m hopeful this will be
> > > > unblocked by early November. Thank you for your continued patience.”
> > > >
> > > > On Nov 24, 2018, at 10:59, Darin Steffl <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It seems wasteful for Amazon to connect to an IX but then ignore
> > > > peering requests for a year.
> > > >
> > > > They have 40G of connectivity but are unresponsive. I'll try emailing
> > > > all the other contacts listed in peeringdb.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 10:38 AM Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I've e-mailed my contacts there a couple times on people's behalf. No
> > > > > response yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems like a lot of organizations need 1 more person in their
> > > > > peering departments.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -----
> > > > > Mike Hammett
> > > > > Intelligent Computing Solutions
> > > > > http://www.ics-il.com
> > > > >
> > > > > Midwest-IX
> > > > > http://www.midwest-ix.com
> > > > >
> > > > > ------------------------------
> > > > > *From: *"Darin Steffl" <darin.steffl () mnwifi com>
> > > > > *To: *"North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog () nanog org>
> > > > > *Sent: *Friday, November 23, 2018 10:21:51 PM
> > > > > *Subject: *Amazon Peering
> > > > >
> > > > > Hey all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have a direct contact to get a peering session established
> > > > > with Amazon at an IX? I sent a peering request Dec 2017 and two more times
> > > > > this Sept and Nov with no response.
> > > > >
> > > > > I sent to peering () amazon com and received one automated response back
> > > > > so I know they received my email but nothing since.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Darin Steffl
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Anurag Bhatia
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