What Is East-West Traffic?

November 7, 2023

East-west traffic refers to the network data transmission conducted horizontally within a single network infrastructure layer. This includes transfers between servers in a data center, virtual machines installed on the same host, or containers in a cluster. The opposite concept is north-south traffic, standing for the data transfers executed between the internal and external networks.

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