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A comment on Packets per Second Limitations in EC2. Parent comment

Re:Packets per Second Limitations in EC2 by rbranson on Friday October 26, 2018 @09:08PM (#18313805)
It has to do with hardware support for virtualized networking. Instances capable of SR-IOV or with the ENA can sustain millions of PPS. It makes a huge difference.
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Re:Packets per Second Limitations in EC2 by ra1n85 on Friday October 26, 2018 @09:13PM (#18313825)
Not correct. Instances are rate limited based on their type and protocol. Enhanced networking support increases total potential performance, but there are artificial limitations put in place.
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Re:Packets per Second Limitations in EC2 by dkhenry on Friday October 26, 2018 @09:26PM (#18313869)
They can sustain millions of PPS, but they still get artificially limited, no matter how many ENI's you seem to attach a given instance will top out at around the same amount of PPS
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