Topic

Cloud VM networking

How rented virtual machines are connected to the internet: provider NAT layers, public address mapping, security groups in front of the instance, and their interaction with host firewalls.

Current clusters

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WebRTC on a NATed cloud VM advertises its private address

Signaling rides TCP 443 through the infrastructure you already configured. The media is UDP that bypasses the proxy entirely, and on a NATed cloud VM the server advertises a private address until you configure the public one yourself.

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Reality

Evidence58
Adoption12
Hype gap+6
Incentives18
Confidence56