AWS Direct Connect Reviews & Product Details

AWS Direct Connect solves the problem of unreliable and inconsistent network performance over the public internet by providing a dedicated, private connection to AWS.

This results in lower latency, higher throughput, and more secure data transfers, which are crucial for enterprise workloads.

It also helps in meeting compliance requirements for data-sensitive applications by keeping traffic off the public internet.

Overall, it ensures stable and predictable network performance, which improves user experience and operational efficiency.

In my organization, we use Direct Connect as the primary path to connect our data center to AWS, ensuring stable performance for key applications and services. It’s particularly beneficial for large-scale data transfers such as backups, disaster recovery replication, and hybrid deployments involving services like Amazon S3, EC2, and RDS.

From a security and compliance perspective, Direct Connect helps us meet regulatory requirements by keeping traffic off the public internet and allowing us to integrate with private VIFs, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect Gateway for controlled, segmented access across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts.

Additionally, using Site-to-Site VPN as a backup, we’ve achieved a highly available, failover-ready design. Direct Connect also benefits us financially by reducing data transfer costs compared to transferring large volumes over the internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

everyone should go for AWS direct connect inside of many 3rd party vendors. Free from outages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ISP connectivity , now it's all AWS cloud infra which is more reliable . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you need to improve latency and relieve the load on your bandwith, give it a try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows you to communicate with your public facing production while maintaining access to your private EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would definitely look at controlling both private and public space via separate VIF in your original architecture. You might think this is over-architecture at first but the more you look at VPC integration support for all of AWS services that your environment uses you will realize that if you control both public and private space that routing will always work and be able to securely maintain. There will be situations you run into that will cause you pain in routing if you do not own the public space but own the private space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High volume data transfer and proper mesh networking for hybrid cloud/onpremise environments is why we use the service. The benefits are that we open ourselves to whole new options for network security, private data transfer and private commit pricing to make our environment not only stable but affordable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Do it...especially if you are only in one region. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Direct Connect connections are easier to manage than VPNs. With VPNs, we required multiple stacks of VPN hardware because each VPN requires a unique endpoint/IP on our side. In order to provide that, we have had to invest in stacks of firewalls. Direct Connect consolidated all of that infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Must have product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We previously used other VPN's for connecting our offices, but the vendors did not offer a 99.9999% uptime and no failover systems to keep our connection active. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Direct connecting into AWS has been an easier process than a direct connect into Azure. If you are to evaluate Azure as well for your hybrid cloud strategy please keep in mind you'll need 2 connections. Azure as far as I'm aware still uses 2 connections to send and receive information. It's over the same pipe for AWS! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Operation efficiencies while staying lean on our operating budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Make sure the cost is worth it. Just like everything in AWS you need to make sure the problem you are attempting to solve is worth the price to solve it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was purchased with the idea of low latency to the cloud. but we dont use it very much and we could have solved the same problem with vpn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provides a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having providers reduce the time to setup direct connect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Problems: Legal paper work between providers and customers. Install and configure physical hardware to configure direct connect.

Benefits: High bandwidth connectivity back to on-premise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.