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Category: AWS Direct Connect
New for AWS Transit Gateway – Build Global Networks and Centralize Monitoring Using Network Manager
As your company grows and gets the benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure, your on-premises sites like offices and stores increasingly need high performance private connectivity to AWS and to other sites at a reasonable cost. Growing your network is hard, because traditional branch networks based on leased lines are costly, and they suffer from the same lack […]
Read MoreUse AWS Transit Gateway & Direct Connect to Centralize and Streamline Your Network Connectivity
Update (May 2020) – This post was originally published in April 2019 and accidentally unpublished earlier this year. We have re-reviewed it and republished it. Last year I showed you how to Use an AWS Transit Gateway to Simplify Your Network Architecture. As I said at the time: You can connect your existing VPCs, data […]
Read MoreNew – Gigabit Connectivity Options for Amazon Direct Connect
AWS Direct Connect gives you the ability to create private network connections between your datacenter, office, or colocation environment and AWS. The connections start at your network and end at one of 91 AWS Direct Connect locations and can reduce your network costs, increase throughput, and deliver a more consistent experience than an Internet-based connection. […]
Read MoreAWS Direct Connect Update – Ten New Locations Added in Late 2017
Happy 2018! I am looking forward to getting back to my usual routine, working with our teams to learn about their upcoming launches and then writing blog posts to bring the news to you. Right now I am still catching up on a few launches and announcements from late 2017. First on the list for […]
Read MoreThe AWS Cloud Goes Underground at re:Invent
As you wander through the AWS re:Invent campus, take a minute to think about your expectations for all of the elements that need to come together… Starting with the location, my colleagues have chosen the best venues, designed the sessions, picked the speakers, laid out the menu, selected the color schemes, programmed or printed all […]
Read MoreNew – AWS Direct Connect Gateway – Inter-Region VPC Access
As I was preparing to write this post, I took a nostalgic look at the blog post I wrote when we launched AWS Direct Connect back in 2012. We created Direct Connect after our enterprise customers asked us to allow them to establish dedicated connections to an AWS Region in pursuit of enhanced privacy, additional […]
Read MoreAWS Direct Connect Update – New Locations in North America and Europe
AWS customers can use AWS Direct Connect to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to AWS. This gives them a more consistent network experience than a shared, Internet-based connection along with increased throughput and the potential to reduce network costs. We have added several new Direct Connect locations already this year, and are […]
Read MoreRoundup of AWS HIPAA Eligible Service Announcements
At AWS we have had a number of HIPAA eligible service announcements. Patrick Combes, the Healthcare and Life Sciences Global Technical Leader at AWS, and Aaron Friedman, a Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, have written this post to tell you all about it. -Ana We are pleased to announce that the […]
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