<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Oh, you ordered cross connects for a PNI and they stopped responding mid-project? Isn't that nice!<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Luca Salvatore via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>To: </b>"North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, January 30, 2019 9:45:29 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Amazon Peering<br><br><link rel="stylesheet" href="/zimbra/css/msgview.css?v=170628170043"><div dir="ltr">Similar experiences here with Amazon. Initially had semi-regular responses from their peering team, they issued LOAs, I ordered the x-connects and then radio silence for months. <div>At the point now where I'm disconnecting x-connects since it's a waste of money.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:49 AM Brooks Swinnerton <<a href="mailto:bswinnerton@gmail.com" target="_blank">bswinnerton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I also saw sessions come up this weekend, no routes yet though.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 4:56 PM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Mike-<div><br></div><div>Definitely moving forward now. Someone from Amazon was working with my peering group and things started coming up this weekend, so it seems like they're catching up pretty good now. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-2361387369937043809gmail-m_5471772617341775388gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:45 PM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.<br><br><div><span></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br><a href="http://www.ics-il.com" target="_blank">http://www.ics-il.com</a><br><br>Midwest-IX<br><a href="http://www.midwest-ix.com" target="_blank">http://www.midwest-ix.com</a><span></span><br></div><br><hr id="gmail-m_-2361387369937043809gmail-m_5471772617341775388gmail-m_-6524182986432670385zwchr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"Tom Beecher" <beecher@beecher.cc><br><b>To: </b>"Jason Lixfeld" <<a href="mailto:jason%2Bnanog@lixfeld.ca" target="_blank">jason+nanog@lixfeld.ca</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>"North American Network Operators' Group" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, January 24, 2019 1:38:51 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Amazon Peering<br><br><div dir="ltr">Thanks Jason. I'll have my peering team take another crack at reaching out and see what happens. Appreciate it!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-2361387369937043809gmail-m_5471772617341775388gmail-m_-6524182986432670385gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:21 PM Jason Lixfeld <<a href="mailto:jason%2Bnanog@lixfeld.ca" target="_blank">jason+nanog@lixfeld.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>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.<div><br></div><div>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.<br><div><br><blockquote><div>On Jan 24, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Tom Beecher <<a href="mailto:beecher@beecher.cc" target="_blank">beecher@beecher.cc</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_-2361387369937043809gmail-m_5471772617341775388gmail-m_-6524182986432670385gmail-m_-3813499891058499879Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-2361387369937043809gmail-m_5471772617341775388gmail-m_-6524182986432670385gmail-m_-3813499891058499879gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 12:32 PM JASON BOTHE via NANOG <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">This is a note I received on Oct18 when checking on a peering request submitted on Aug7.. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“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.”</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Nov 24, 2018, at 10:59, Darin Steffl <<a href="mailto:darin.steffl@mnwifi.com" target="_blank">darin.steffl@mnwifi.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">It seems wasteful for Amazon to connect to an IX but then ignore peering requests for a year.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They have 40G of connectivity but are unresponsive. I'll try emailing all the other contacts listed in peeringdb.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 10:38 AM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">I've e-mailed my contacts there a couple times on people's behalf. No response yet.<br><br>It seems like a lot of organizations need 1 more person in their peering departments.<br><br><div><span></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br><a href="http://www.ics-il.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ics-il.com</a><br><br>Midwest-IX<br><a href="http://www.midwest-ix.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.midwest-ix.com</a><span></span><br></div><br><hr id="gmail-m_-2361387369937043809gmail-m_5471772617341775388gmail-m_-6524182986432670385gmail-m_-3813499891058499879gmail-m_5681997598025002047m_6178129276010431230zwchr"><div style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>From: </b>"Darin Steffl" <<a href="mailto:darin.steffl@mnwifi.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">darin.steffl@mnwifi.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"North American Network Operators' Group" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, November 23, 2018 10:21:51 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Amazon Peering<br><br><div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I sent to <a href="mailto:peering@amazon.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">peering@amazon.com</a> and received one automated response back so I know they received my email but nothing since.</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-2361387369937043809gmail-m_5471772617341775388gmail-m_-6524182986432670385gmail-m_-3813499891058499879gmail-m_5681997598025002047m_6178129276010431230gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Darin Steffl<div>Minnesota WiFi</div><div><a href="http://www.mnwifi.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.mnwifi.com</a></div><div>507-634-WiFi</div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.snoitulosten.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/facebook-small.jpg" src="http://www.snoitulosten.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/facebook-small.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Like us on Facebook</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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