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AWS Direct Connect Overview

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.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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4.0 out of 5
"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?

Ability to connect to multiple VPC's from a single connection to our On-Premise Data Centers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

We use a managed Direct Connect from AT&T because of costs savings of renting colo space in a DX capable data center. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were able to reduce our spend on transport to our cloud resources by moving to DX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

The best of the best cloud services dedicated to the most direct network connection needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

There is nothing at all at this time that I can think of to improve on AWS Direct Connect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Direct Connect:

Yes I do recommend.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is allowing me to be able have the best network connection possible from my home which has become my workplace . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Having a fast reliable connection to the cloud is essential to running hybrid cloud environments where data has to travel between on premise environments and cloud with low latency and high reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Transfer costs out of AWS is a dealbreaker for some companies especially if they transfer in petabytes of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hybrid cloud environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Amazon Direct Connect provoides lower latency and consistent network connectivity. With Direcr connect gateway there is some degree of scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

There are not many features that are negative. The initial provisioning time is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Direct Connect:

For smaller connections, use SDN enabled prover to quickly provision Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Stable connectivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

It is a simpler solution to data connection issues than trying to install and pay for a second wireless router. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

That its use is limited to what devices it can connect to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Direct Connect:

Get it if you want to save time! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

That it has made operations run smoother by giving us the ability to put certain programs on its data connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

The ability to connectg to my vpc with a private link rather than over the internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

The requirement to create individual links per vpc from aws to my on premise network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the ability to connect to my on premise network via a provate connection fron asw Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

We have a stable, dedicated, and fast connection to all our AWS resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Not much, it's a simple service that does what I need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Now that Direct Connect Gateway is available, we are able to connect our headquarters with the existing VPCs of our acquisitions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

The Direct Connect GW made it lot easier to connect multiple VPCs. The setup was intuitive and the serivce is running fine in our production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

There is nothing I disliked so far. Happy user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Enabled onprem connectivity to and AWS VPCs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Very easy to set up and the documentation is really great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Better visibility into the set up and better documentation for troubleshooting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Direct Connect:

Better connectivity and faster set-up. Better connectivity than the VPN connection. Better reliability as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

COnnectivity to multiple VPCs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Having the ability to connect to our instances without having to setup a firewall is key for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

I honestly cannot think of any reason to dislike the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Saving money by not having to provision firewalls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.