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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 .
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.)
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?

The ease of setting up. Working with AWS was easier than working with our very well known circuit carrier. You guys were extremely easy to work with! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

more alerting options, and integration with AWS partners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

easy to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Direct connect is the way to go for enterprise company to have secure and dedicated connectivity betweeen on prem and cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Price is high for dedicated connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reducing latency. Secure connection. Not hogging the Internet speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

easy setup on the aws side, to configure the driect connect and routing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

It is mostly on the network provider side, not offering SDN that would allow multiple POP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SLA engagement on critical businness apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

AWS DirectConnect was the instrumental feature that helped us with our data migration from our on-prem hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Nothing so far. Things have been very smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

DB and infrastructure migration to AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Direct Connect provides the best level of security and performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Cost was a litte high, it seems to me that it should be included Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Performance and Security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Wide varietly of places to connect, service providers etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Some of the routing is different then traditional routing and therefore sometimes lacks flexability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Protecting data in transit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

1 Gbps or 10 Gbps dedicated network connections Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Nothing at this time, I like everything about this product.

The user experience is great and is very user frinedly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Connecting to customer's VPNs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Integrates with private network used with ATT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Setup still somewhaty clumsy and requires network knowledge beyond average Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Internet finite bandwidth and latency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Reliability of the solution and ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

There are no issues involved I am aware of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Secure end to end communications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Setup was easy and it just funtions. Character Padding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Metrics are not great for CNF's like Equinix Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Guaranteed Bandwidth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.