Direct Connect — Part 1

AWS Advanced Networking Prep and General focus

Notion — https://meteor-honeycup-16b.notion.site/Direct-Connect-a61557d18e784e778b4500197168454c

What is the Direct Connect product trying to solve?

We have seen IPSEC Site-to-Site VPN, a nice extension to that is Direct Connect offering. In IPSEC VPN, we connected to AWS VPC securely over the internet, in Direct Connect we have a cable termination onto our Data Center premises which directly connects to AWS Infrastructure and no internet service providers are needed for this to happen.

AWS Direct Connect — Image Credits: :https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html

Advantages:

• Bypasses Internet and thereby secure
• Low Latency to AWS services
• Consistent Performance with up to speeds of 1/10/100 and support for jumbo frames > 9k

What are my building blocks?

• We basically start with a Connection, pretty much self-explanatory
• A Connection has the below requirements

Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html

Functional Building Block?