Q: Can I create a LAG out of my existing ports? You can configure your VIF to enable or disable AWS Direct Connect SiteLink using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, or APIs. No, you cannot associate an unattached VGW to AWS Direct Connect gateway. See additional information that follows to understand how data transfer will be billed. To achieve high availability connectivity to AWS, we recommend making connections at multiple AWS Direct Connect locations. No, we do not support moving the VLAN tag outside of the encrypted payload. Pricing is per port-hour consumed for each port type. AWS Direct Connect is now live at Equinix NY5, Secaucus, NJ. Yes, you can continue to use supported BGP attributes (AS_PATH, Local Pref, NO_EXPORT) on the transit virtual interface. It will show as a single dxlag and well list the connection ids under it. Please refer to AWS Direct Connect quotas pageto learn more about the limits associated with transit virtual interface. You associate an AWS Direct Connect gateway with the virtual private gateway for the VPC. Yes, you can associate a Transit Gateway owned by any AWS account with an AWS Direct Connect gateway owned by any AWS account. Q: What is the AWS Direct Connect Failover Testing feature? If you no longer want to be charged for your Hosted Connection, work with your AWS Direct Connect Partner to cancel the Hosted Connection. When requesting a connection, you will be asked to select a AWS Direct Connect location, the number of ports, and the port speed. This Q: Can I use AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a backup for my AWS Direct Connect link to an AWS Local Zone? I want to use AWS VPN CloudHub in us-east-1 between the VPN and a new VIF. AWS Regions provide multiple physically separated and isolated However, it will not protect against a single device failure at AWS where your LAG is terminating. Yes, this feature will work with private virtual interfaces attached with AWS Direct Connect gateway. Click here to return to Amazon Web Services homepage, A complete list of AWS Direct Connect locations is available on the AWS Direct Connect, For AWS Direct Connect pricing information, Refer to the AWS Direct Connect. In the case of a transit virtual interface, the AWS account that owns the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud(s) attached to the AWS Transit Gateway associated with the AWS Direct Connect gateway attached to the transit virtual interface is charged. If you resize your VPC, you must resend the proposal with the resized VPC CIDR to the AWS Direct Connect gateway owner. Q: I'm attaching multiple private VIFs to a single AWS Direct Connect gateway. Features that are not currently supported by AWS Direct Connect are; AWS Classic VPN, AWS VPN (such as edge-to-edge routing), VPC peering, VPC endpoints. No, an AWS Direct Connect Gateway can only have one type of virtual interface attached. If you are using a public ASN, you must own it. AWS support for Internet Explorer ends on 07/31/2022. Q: How can I configure/assign my ASN to be advertised as the AWS side ASN? Once the AWS Direct Connect gateway is configured with an AWS side ASN, the private virtual interfaces associated with the AWS Direct Connect gateway use your configured ASN as the AWS side ASN. An AWS Direct Connect link to AWS Local Zones works the same way as connecting to a Region. For additional resiliency, AWS customers can consider using AWS Site to Site VPN terminating on an AWS Transit Gateway as a back up to their AWS Direct Connect connections. You can advertise the default route via BGP. You can continue to attach your virtual interfaces (VIFs) to virtual private gateways (VGWs). You can use an AWS Direct Connect gateway attached with one or more transit virtual interfaces to interface with up to three AWS Transit Gateways in any supported AWS Regions. For information about how to use VPN with AWS Direct Connect, see AWS Direct Connect Plus VPN. Q: Can I associate AWS Transit Gateway that are owned by any AWS account with an AWS Direct Connect gateway that is owned by any AWS account? Q: Can I resize a VPC that is associated with an AWS Direct Connect gateway? Private virtual interfaces and AWS Direct Connect gateways must be in the same AWS account. resiliency against device, connectivity, and complete location failures. We recommend following the resiliency best practices detailed in the AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Recommendationspage to determine the best resiliency model for your use case. No, a VGW-VPC pair cannot be part of more than one AWS Direct Connect gateway. We're sorry we let you down. Q: Does the local preference communities feature support failover? Q: What is the difference between dedicated and hosted connections? Q: Can I use my current AWS Direct Connect Gateway (DXGW) to associate the Virtual Gateway (VGW)? If using an AWS Direct Connect Partner to facilitate an AWS Direct Connect connection, contact the AWS Direct Connect Partner regarding any fees they may charge. Your device must support 802.1Q VLANs. terminate on separate devices in one location. No, AWS Direct Connect gateway's only support routing traffic from AWS Direct Connect VIFs to VGW (associated with VPC). MACsec is supported on 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated AWS Direct Connect connections at selected points of presence. Yes, but only if yourminimum links are set to lower than the remaining ports. Q: Are there limits on the amount of data that I can transfer using AWS Direct Connect? Yes, you can create one transit virtual interface on any connection of capacity of 1 Gbps or more (1, 2, 5, 10, 100 Gbps). AWS VPN CloudHub enables connectivity between on-premises networks using AWS Direct Connect or a VPN within the same Region. We currently support the GCM-AES-XPN-256 cipher suite. You can use the AWS Management Console or API operations to create transit virtual interface. Q: Does AWS Direct Connect gateway break existing AWS VPN CloudHub functionality? AWS Direct Connect SiteLink is supported on private and transit VIFs. If you are using a public ASN, you must own it. Q: Can virtual private gateways (VGWs, associated with a VPC) be part of more than one AWS Direct Connect gateway? If you are using a last-mile connectivity partner, check that your last-mile connection can support MACsec. Q: I use AWS VPN CloudHub today. As shown in the figure above, such a topology ensures resilience to connectivity failure due to a fiber cut or a device failure as well as a complete location failure. In such situation, egress behavior across multiple VIFs from multiple AWS Direct Connect Locations may be arbitrary. If you already have equipment located in an AWS Direct Connect location, contact the appropriate provider to complete the cross connect. Yes. Use the AWS Direct Connect tab on the AWS Management Console to create a new connection. All AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon DynamoDB can be used with AWS Direct Connect. VPN Connections can be configured in minutes and are a good solution if you have an immediate need, have low to modest bandwidth requirements, and can tolerate the inherent variability of internet-based connectivity. One such implementation is explained in thisblog. All rights reserved. Q: If I have a virtual private gateway (VGW) attached to a VPN and an AWS Direct Connect gateway, and my AWS Direct Connect circuit goes down, will my VPC traffic route out to the VPN? Q: How can I tell what Im being charged for AWS Direct Connect SiteLink? You must create a new DXGW and associate it with the VGW. Unlike connectivity to a Region, you cannot use an AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a backup to your AWS Direct Connect connection to an AWS Local Zone. A private virtual interface enables access to your VPC. We recommend that you follow AWS Direct Connect resiliency recommendationsand attach more than one private virtual interface. Your Border Gateway Protocol session will go down if you advertise over 100 routes over a Border Gateway Protocol session. Make sure your VPN connections can handle the failover traffic from AWS Direct Connect. The account that owns the port will be charged the port hour charges. For customers with a Japanese billing address, use of AWS services is subject to Japanese Consumption Tax. For MACsec to work, your dedicated connection must be transparent to Layer 2 traffic and the device terminating the Layer 2 adjacency must support MACsec. AWS Direct Connect Partners help customers establish network connectivity between AWS Direct Connect locations and their data centers, offices or colocation environments. Yes, provided the current AWS Direct Connect Gateway is not associated with an AWS Transit Gateway. Q: How will I be charged and billed for my use of AWS Direct Connect? All Hosted Connection port-hour charges at an AWS Direct Connect location are grouped by capacity. AWS recommends connecting from multiple data centers for physical location redundancy. Q: What happens if I advertise more than 100 routes over a Border Gateway Protocol session? Q:Does AWS Direct Connect SiteLink require BGP? The access to the CloudFront edge locations will be restricted to the geographically nearest AWS Region, with the exception of the North America Regions which currently allow access to all North American Region's on-net CloudFront origins. Yes. Q: Do you support all the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attributes that you support on the private virtual interface for the transit virtual interface? Q: Can I mix interface types and have a few 1 G ports and a few 10 G ports in the same LAG? Consider using AWS Site to Site VPN terminating on an AWS Transit Gateway as a backup for your mission critical workloads. Can each VIF have a separate AWS side ASN? After you have downloaded your Letter of Authorization and Connecting Facility Assignment (LOA-CFA), you must complete your cross-network connection. Q: Does AWS Direct Connect offer a Service Level Agreement (SLA)? As shown in the figure above, such a topology helps in the case of the device failure at a location but does not help in the event of a total location failure. How long do you keep the test history? Yes. Q: I'm attaching multiple Virtual Private Gateways with their own private ASN to a single AWS Direct Connect gateway configured with its own private ASN. We offer MACsec as an encryption option you can integrate into your network in addition to other encryption technologies you currently use. AWS Direct Connect follows the standard approach for path selection. Q: What is an AWS Direct Connect Gateway Bring your own private ASN? With AWS Direct Connect, you will pay AWS Direct Connect data transfer rates for origin transfer. However, due to security practices, your equipment cannot be placed within AWS Direct Connect rack or cage areas. Yes, you can allocate transit virtual interface in any AWS account. For Hosted Connections, connection speeds of 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 200 Mbps, 300 Mbps, 400 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps, 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps may be ordered from approved AWS Direct Connect Partners. Data transfer through AWS Direct Connect will be billed in the same month in which the usage occurred. We dont support multi-chassis LAG. You can attach an AWS Direct Connect virtual interface (VIF) directly to a virtual private gateway (VGW) to support intra-Region AWS VPN CloudHub. failure. Q: Will this feature work with an AWS Direct Connect gateway? Q: What are the technical requirements for virtual interfaces (VIF) to VPCs? Dynamic routing also enables remote connections to automatically leverage available preferred routes, if applicable, to the on-premises network. VIFs on two different LAGs can be connected to the same VGW. Yes, you can use different private ASNs for your AWS Direct Connect Gateway and Virtual Private Gateway. Q: What does minimum links mean, and why do I have a check box for it when I order my bundle? You can associate up to three Transit Gateway to an AWS Direct Connect gateway as long as the IP CIDR blocks announced from your Transit Gateways do not overlap. Yes, there are differences. Bring up multiple AWS Direct Connect gateways, and associate subsets of AWS Direct Connect SiteLink-enabled private virtual interfaces (VIFs) with each. You can use AWS Direct Connect gateway to access any AWS Region (except AWS Regions in China) from any AWS Direct Connect locations.
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