AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking

Amazon has developed a new networking topology that's up to a third faster and up to 40 percent more energy efficient than traditional hierarchical network designs. The novel architecture, called Resilient Network Graphs (RNG), is based on random graph theory. "Traditional networks have always been hierarchical," explained Matt Rehder, VP of global network engineering at AWS, in a recent interview. "They're sort of like an org chart where one network device will talk to the boss network device w