Level 3 Communications today announced that it is offering dedicated network connectivity and services to support Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) new service, AWS Direct Connect.
AWS Direct Connect enables enterprises to set up a connection to an AWS region via a dedicated network circuit. Using AWS Direct Connect, enterprises can establish a dedicated connection between AWS and their organization’s data center, colocation facility or main office, thereby increasing bandwidth throughput, improving network consistency and reducing network costs.
Enterprise IT departments are increasingly moving applications to cloud-based solutions and looking for additive services to ensure network connectivity is reliable and secure. Level 3’s network and cloud services enable an ultra-high availability, end-to-end cloud platform that optimizes business productivity by delivering AWS services over a network that meets the applications’ availability, latency and security requirements.
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Enterprise adoption of Amazon Web Services is growing in both scale and complexity. With this increasing sophistication, many customers want network connectivity options that match their application-specific requirements for performance and security,” said Andrew Crouch, president of Sales for Level 3.
Using industry standard 802.1q VLANs, connections through AWS Direct Connect can be partitioned into multiple logical connections, allowing customers to use the same connection to access public resources such as objects stored in Amazon S3 using public IP address space, and private resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, while maintaining network separation between the public and private environments. Logical connections can be reconfigured at any time.
Level 3’s international fiber-optic network can help scale enterprise adoption of cloud-based services and provide end-users 1G (gigabit) and 10G (gigabit) circuits to the AWS cloud at all Direct Connect sites.
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