Benefits of Using Direct Connect
- It provides a connection with high bandwidth and low latency, hence reliability and performance are increased.
- Since a dedicated private connection is established completely bypassing the public internet hence adds to the security of your connection.
- Data transfer over AWS Direct Connect is very cost-effective as compared to using the typical public network.
What is Direct Connect in AWS?
Most of the modern IT infrastructure use hybrid application that is deployed along multiple cloud platforms or multiple locations. The typical connection between that environment travels through VPN Tunnel over the public internet. Thus a connection might suffer in case of unpredictable internet connection, latency, or loss of private customers’ data. So a dedicated connection is needed between data centers and offices.
Here comes the Direct Connect in the picture, networking services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a dedicated network connection over standard Ethernet fiber-optic cable between your data center (on-premises data center) and AWS Direct connect location that completely bypasses the public networks coming in between.