Direct Connect

  • Provide Dedicated Private Connection from Remote Network to VPC
  • Need to establish physical connection between Corporate Data Center and AWS Direct Connect Location
  • Corporate Data Center => AWS Direct Connect Location => VPC
  • In VPC a Virtual Private Gateway is required
  • DC allow both Public and Private resources
  • Supports IPv4 and IPv6
  • Two types of DC available
  • Dedicated Connection
    • Bandwidth be 1Gbps to 10Gbps
    • A dedicated physical ethernet port will be available in AWS for the customer
    • To establish Dedicated Connection, first request AWS and complete by AWS Direct Connect Partners
  • Hosted Connection
    • To establish Hosted Connection, don't need to request AWS, can be completed by AWS Direct Connect Partners
  • Hosted Connection
  • Direct Connect is a time consuming process (approximately 1 month)
  • Encryption
  • Data In Transit is not encrypted
  • Data In Transit is private between Corporate Data Center, Direct Connect Partner and AWS Cloud
  • Encryption can be established by IPsec-encrypted private connection
    • IPsec-encryption is combination of Direct Connect and VPN
    • This VPN is between Corporate Data Center and AWS Direct Connect Partner
  • Used for
  • Increase bandwidth throughput
    • Working with large data set
    • lower bandwidth cost
  • Consistent network to avoid
    • data drops
    • connection shut down
    • real time data feeds
  • Hybrid environments (On Premise Data Center and Cloud Data Center)
  • LAG can be used to aggregate maximum throughput