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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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"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?

Fast connect, virtual Interface, extremely resilient and fault-tolerant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Honestly nothing, process was simple and it has been an amazing benefit to our business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cost reduction and internet touting issues. We have noticed a huge decrease in our bandwidth commitment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Latency, performance, multiregion reachability, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

VIF limitation! VIF limitation! VIF limitation! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Public, private reachability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

Direct private network gateway between our on premise network to AWS network. This provides security and dedicated analytics of our own traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

Still have to go through public network providers that are not as scalable, fault torelant which could cause failures as we’ve seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Direct private network connection to AWS without going through public internet. Also provides speeds we can control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Direct Connect?

This product is easy to use and makes information more secure within a network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

It can be a little slow or fussy at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

File sharing has been an issue and connectivity within our business and this seems to be a solution and it is secure as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Best way to manage on premise data and cloud data, with direct connect you can keep secure that on premise. Very useful in government and federal use case Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Direct Connect?

There is always debate on VPN vs direct connect, some customers are happy with VPN and some are happy with direct connect especially if you can have direct connect line from your enterprise to amazon data center. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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securing on premise data and not transferring it to the cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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