AWS Interconnect - last mile Pricing

With AWS Interconnect – last mile, you are charged hourly for each interconnect based on your selected bandwidth and automatically assigned pricing tier. There are no per-gigabyte data transfer charges. Billing starts when you create an interconnect and stops when you delete it. Interconnect hour charges are billed in one-hour increments, rounded up to the nearest hour.

When you create a last mile connection, you select a delivery partner and the Interconnect metro — the physical location where the partner’s infrastructure connects into AWS and your last mile connection begin. Your pricing tier is automatically computed based on the furthest AWS Region attached on a single Direct Connect Gateway (DXGW) and the Interconnect metro. Greater geographic path distances generally result in higher tiers.

There are five pricing tiers, with Tier 5 being the most expensive and Tier 1 being the least expensive. Each interconnect is assigned a single tier based on the highest-tier path it uses. You are only charged for your assigned tier, not for each tier individually. Higher tiers include all connectivity paths from lower tiers.

For more information, see the user guide on how AWS Interconnect pricing works.

You created an AWS Interconnect – last mile connection from the New York Metro (Interconnect Metro) through Lumen to AWS US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 with 10 Gbps bandwidth. You attached your VPC in US East (N. Virginia) to a Direct Connect Gateway (DXGW) via a Virtual Private Gateway and configured routing to send traffic from your branch office to your AWS VPC. Over the course of a month, 5 TB of data was transferred between your branch office and AWS.

Since your Interconnect metro – New York and your furthest AWS Region (US East N. Virginia us-east-1) are local, you are assigned Tier 1 pricing. For a 10 Gbps interconnect at Tier 1, the rate is $12.33 per hour. Over a full month (730 hours), this results in a charge of $9,000.90 ($12.33 × 730 hours).

AWS Interconnect – last mile does not charge per-gigabyte data transfer fees. The 5 TB of data transferred between your branch office and your AWS VPC incurs no additional charges beyond the hourly interconnect fee.

You created an AWS Interconnect – last mile connection from the New York Metro (Interconnect Metro) through Lumen to AWS US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 with 10 Gbps bandwidth. You attached the last-mile interconnect to a Direct Connect Gateway and associated it with your Cloud WAN Core Network, which has Core Network Edges (CNEs) in both us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and ap-southeast-1 (Singapore). Your workloads in Singapore can now send traffic through the NYC interconnect to reach your branch office.

Because your Cloud WAN topology includes a CNE in ap-southeast-1 (Singapore), your interconnect is automatically assigned Tier 4 pricing — the highest tier path between your partner metro (NYC) and the furthest AWS Region (Singapore) on the DXGW. For a 10 Gbps interconnect at Tier 4, the rate is $51.78 per hour. Over a full month (730 hours), this results in a charge of $37,799.40 ($51.78 × 730 hours).

Your pricing tier is automatically determined based on the geographic distance between your Interconnect metro and the furthest AWS Region connected through a single Direct Connect Gateway. If you later remove the Singapore CNE from your Cloud WAN Core Network, your tier assignment will update automatically within minutes to reflect the new topology.