AS201471 — BIGSTEP-CLOUD Bigstep Cloud Limited

AS201471 announces 7 IPv4 prefixes covering 13,824 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

BIGSTEP-CLOUD is operated by Bigstep Cloud Limited.

What it's used for

• The address space carries cloud and hosting infrastructure, evidenced by netnames such as Bigstep-Cloud-Ltd, UK-BIGSTEP-20150303, and legacy HOSTWAYUK and UK-HOSTGLOBAL blocks.
• The AS announces 13,824 IPv4 addresses across 7 prefixes and 2 IPv6 prefixes, with 4 observed neighbours, indicating a hosting or cloud provider role rather than a transit or access network.
• Traffic from this AS consists of bare-metal cloud instances and virtual servers, supporting latency-sensitive workloads and scalable storage for business clients.

Notable

• Registrants include Bigstep Cloud Limited, Hostway UK Ltd, and Host Global Limited, reflecting the operator's history of acquiring or integrating previous hosting entities.
• Bigstep Cloud Limited is a UK-based provider of non-virtualized cloud infrastructure for big data and bare-metal services, with a Romanian subsidiary.
• The inventory includes a mix of /20, /22, and /23 IPv4 blocks, alongside a /41 and /48 IPv6 allocation, supporting a diverse range of cloud deployments.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 66.232.128.0/21
• 84.40.0.0/20
• 84.40.32.0/20
• 84.40.58.0/23
• 84.40.60.0/22
• 176.223.248.0/22
• 185.90.48.0/22
• 2001:67c:4dc::/48
• 2a02:cb8::/41

Upstream networks

• AS12703 Pulsant (Scotland) Ltd
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS39756 EASYHOST SRL

Adjacent networks

• AS12703 Pulsant (Scotland) Ltd
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS39756 EASYHOST SRL

Routing security

• RPKI: 12 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 10 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 25 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BIGSTEP, AS-EVERESTDATA, AS-HOSTWAY, AS-HURRICANE, AS-QTS-394968, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS12703:AS-TRANSITS, AS12703:AS-TRANSITS-V6, AS13335:AS-CUSTOMERS.