Costs of Direct Connect
There is no minimum setup fee for AWS Direct Connect, you have to pay for what you use. Pricing is based on three factors:
1. Capacity: It is the maximum rate at which can be transferred through the network, capacity of a connection is measured in megabits per second(Mbps) or gigabits per second(Gbps).
2. Port hours: It measures the time for which a port is allocated for use with AWS, even when do transfer is happening at that time you are charged for port hours, Port hours depend on two factors namely, dedicated connection or hosted connection.
- Dedicated connections: physical connections from your premises port to the AWS network port. These are billed as long as they are allocated for use, you can request for dedicated connection through the AWS Direct Connect section of the AWS Management Console.
- Hosted connections: logical and you can request for hosted connection by directly contacting your Delivery Partner.
3. Data transfer out (DTO): It refers to the total traffic out of the AWS from your network and is charged per gigabyte (GB).
4. Data Transfer In (DTI): Just opposite of the DTO, it is the total traffic received in the network from outside the AWS.
What is Direct Connect in AWS?
Most of the modern IT infrastructure use hybrid application that is deployed along multiple cloud platforms or multiple locations. The typical connection between that environment travels through VPN Tunnel over the public internet. Thus a connection might suffer in case of unpredictable internet connection, latency, or loss of private customers’ data. So a dedicated connection is needed between data centers and offices.
Here comes the Direct Connect in the picture, networking services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a dedicated network connection over standard Ethernet fiber-optic cable between your data center (on-premises data center) and AWS Direct connect location that completely bypasses the public networks coming in between.