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What is AWS Direct Connect?

AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.

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AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.

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Yogesh Kumar V.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"best solution for moving from onprem to cloud infra"
AWS direct connect has 99.99% availability .
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Megan W.
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Megan W.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great service for improving performance"
The seamless interface between our on premise and cloud environment.
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"DirectConnect helped us with our migration"
AWS DirectConnect was the instrumental feature that helped us with our data migration from our on-prem hosts.
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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

AWS Direct connect is so easy to learn and use, there is no need to take a course because the entire system teaches you step by step. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

I don't like the complex amount of options. I understand having options is good but when there is so many this may stop many consumers who are not tech savvy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Direct Connect:

I would recommend users to get right into the system and don't worry about the many complexities and options that are available for users, instead just start implementing your system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am able to run servers and directly connect to web-sockets much more efficiently thanks to the streamlined work of AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

I like the security AWS provides me with in their hosting techniques. The only time my company has ever been hacked was when a previous employee used their knowledge of the backend to get in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

The price, it is competitive, but our company would always like something a bit cheaper! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

We enjoy the extra "space". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Well it isolate the traffic to between AWS and HQ and the connection is much more stable and no latency compare from what we had before thx Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

I don't have anything to say about the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Connect is much more stable now compare to what we used to have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

that it provides a secure gateway with reliability to connect public cloud with the private network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

nothing specifically. However many of our customers who are using the direct connect do it from the cost perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some of our customers use Direct COnnect. It helps to create IPSEC tunnels for virtual security devices hosted on AWS to Hubs that connect to Direct Connect gateway. This provides a link to manage the devices from AWS and also provide manageability and orchestration capabilities with the legacy networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

AWS Direct Connect works very well from AWS to onprem services and data transsafer securely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

I don't see any dislikes related to AWS Direect Connect as such Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have servies running both in AWS and on-prem and uses AWS DC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

The privacy, dedicated bandwidth and functionality. Ease of use once it is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

AWS DX Partners still need 90+ days to deliver new DX circuits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Direct Connect:

If you can afford it, use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Redundant and carrier diverse private circuits to AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

We are a recent hybrid cloud adopter and initially used vpns for connectivity from our on prem DCs to our VPCs. BY leveraging the aws/cisco transit vpc and direct connect we have been able to deploy dozens of customer facing high usage applications with little to no downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Takes too long to provision new circuits. No redundancy on the AWs side currently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scale, speed, and cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Easy integration with BGP and our route tables in MPLS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

There's nothing i would recommend for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Direct Connect:

Read up on technology before implementing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

higher throughput connectivity than VPN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

When we were assisting with deployment of this solution for a client, the interface was easy to use and there was ample assistance available, if/when we needed it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Nothing! It was a breeze to set up and has been easy to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problems that have been solved were onboarding and deploying a dc environment win a timely manner with minimal hiccups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

That we were able to work with Amazon and they were able to get it working very quickly. The process is very structured in making changes to their network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Nothing to really report on that been using and it works just fine for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Direct Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have duplicate MPLS connections because our carrier has been having issue.s Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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