AWS Direct Connect provides a facility to create a dedicated network (private connectivity) connection between AWS and a traditional data center or on-premise network or colocation environment. The very first question should be: why it is required when we can access AWS resources over internet? The answer is as follows:
- It is used to transfer data without using the public internet
- Secure and consistent network
- A high-bandwidth network connection between on-premise network and single or multiple VPCs is available in AWS. The next question is about capacity, right?
- It provides 1 GBps and 10 GBps connections
- Compatibility with AWS services:
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- Amazon Simple Storage Service
Now another question: How does it work?
- The on-premise router and the AWS Direct Connect router...
