SEM 17: Control Planes And Data Planes In Software Architecture

Understand the difference between a control plane and data plane.

May 04, 2024

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For the past few years, I’ve been managing cloud services, and one key idea in cloud service architecture is the use of a control plane and data plane.

Most cloud services (e.g., AWS EC2, Oracle API Gateway, Google Cloud Storage) are separated into two logical areas: control planes and data planes.

The term control plane and data plane originate from comp…

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