Category: AWS Direct Connect

AWS Local Zones offer low-latency access to AWS services for customers in metropolitan areas. As Local Zones adoption increases, customers can design highly available architectures by using Local Zones. By leveraging Megaport’s Cloud Router and Virtual Cross Connects, customers can optimize east-west traffic between Local Zones, reducing latency. This enables them to build resilient, high-performance architectures with improved network connectivity between Local Zones for their applications without having to route through parent regions.

The industry is evolving rapidly, with technology advancing at an unprecedented rate to keep up with new trends. Customers are transitioning from fully private Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks to entirely Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN), leveraging the Internet extensively—a stark contrast to the approach taken a decade ago. Additionally, many customers are changing their trust model and moving towards Zero-Trust Architectures, which operate on the principle that no one, whether external or internal, is trusted by default and continuous monitoring is employed to scrutinise their behaviour.

Salesforce customers hosted on Hyperforce can now access services over the public internet. Some customers require dedicated, managed connections for compliance or reliability, but Salesforce Express Connect is incompatible with Hyperforce. For direct connectivity from on-premises to Hyperforce, AWS Direct Connect offers guaranteed bandwidth and an SLA. This post provides best practices on using AWS Direct Connect to access Hyperforce deployed on AWS.

As organizations continue to expand their cloud infrastructure, they have ongoing requirements to connect their AWS environments to other cloud providers. However, connecting different cloud networks seamlessly and securely can be a challenge due to varying networking architectures, security models, and operational tools. Learn how Aviatrix Systems simplifies this process and enables businesses to fully leverage AWS while easily connecting to other cloud providers.

Customers who want to use AWS Outposts rack to build out their own hybrid edge infrastructure face complexity, as they need to prepare their environment to accommodate the router, switches rack, and power to connect their Outposts. Learn how customers can use many, but not all, of the deployment options to connect Megaport’s Fabric and Network edge to Outposts. These use cases remove barriers, simplify edge connectivity, and eliminate the need for additional customer networking devices for hybrid solutions.

Many customers want to connect commercial regions to the China regions, but China’s compliance and infrastructure requirements are different than other countries. It requires isolation between VPCs in the China regions and VPCs in the other global regions. Learn about a solution that enables cross-border connectivity between six AWS commercial regions and China regions using a third-party marketplace solution that relies on AWS Direct Connect partners.

As customers adopt VMware Cloud on AWS, it’s important to provide scalable and reliable hybrid connectivity to help integrate SDDCs with on-premises and cloud-native services. VMware Cloud on AWS customers have additional network security requirements including network encryption, firewall integration, and traffic segmentation. Learn about hybrid network design patterns and considerations, and go through various network architecture design options and use cases addressing customer requirements.

With hybrid implementations, we see a design pattern where customers configure connectivity to allow communication between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS networks. Customers use various methods such us a VPN and/or AWS Direct Connect to implement hybrid cloud connectivity. Learn how to leverage Direct Connect to establish hybrid connectivity between on-premises VMware infrastructure and VMware Cloud on AWS.

Learn how to simplify global network architecture using AWS Transit Gateway with Aruba SD-WAN branch-to-cloud connectivity, and explore how Aruba’s customers have leveraged the benefits of AWS Transit Gateway at a global scale. Aruba, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is a global leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions that uses a cloud-native approach to help customers with all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide area networking (WAN).

VMware Cloud on AWS allows customers to seamlessly extend their Layer 2 on-premises networks to the cloud. This is important because you can migrate virtual machines from on-premises Layer 2 networks to VMware Cloud on AWS without changing IP addresses. Learn about the architectural considerations for extending your on-premises networks to VMware Cloud on AWS using HCX and the NSX Autonomous Standalone Edge, either via AWS Direct Connect or through the public internet.