ExtraHop showed off some cool tech at Cloud Field Day 6 (CFD6). During the presentation, the company discussed their Reveal(x) product which solves the problem of packet inspection in clouds such as AWS. For those used to doing traffic inspection in a traditional datacenter, this might not sound like a big deal. A myriad of port mirroring technologies exist in the physical world where customers and manage their own hardware. In the cloud, it’s not so simple. Because of the multitennent nature of cloud, reading packets going across the cloud provider’s network is, let’s just say “problematic.”