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Amazon used to run entirely behind Citrix NetScaler hardware; no F5 at all. This was back in the early 2010s so I assume things have changed by now.



Yup - there was a massive internal push to move off of SSL terminating LBs back in ~2018


How come?


Cost.

Now, SSL termination is done at the host level, using a distributed SSL termination proxy developed by S3 called "JBLRelay"




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