Dedicated Connections
Dedicated connections are a type of AWS Direct Connect connection that provides a dedicated network circuit between your on-premises data center and AWS. This dedicated circuit ensures consistent network performance, improved security, and increased bandwidth. With a dedicated connection, you can establish a dedicated private connection between your organization and AWS, bypassing the public internet, improving privacy, and minimizing latency. As a result, you can reduce costs and increase performance for critical applications running in AWS. Dedicated connections are often requested by larger organizations with higher bandwidth requirements, strict compliance needs, or more complex networking scenarios.
Guide: AWS Direct Connect - Dedicated Connections
AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. This is important to ensure the predictable performance of your data transfer as well as increase bandwidth throughput.
Dedicated Connections: This is a physical Ethernet connection associated with a single customer. They are provisioned on single-tenant physical hardware.
How it works: With AWS Direct Connect, you perform a cross-connect between your network and an AWS Direct Connect router. Once the Dedicated Connection is set up, you create a virtual interface linking the AWS Direct Connect connection to a given AWS service.
Exam Tips:
- Understand the difference between a dedicated and hosted connection.
- Know how to set up and establish a dedicated connection.
Typical exam questions might ask you to troubleshoot issues with a Direct Connect connection or determine the appropriate use case for a Dedicated Connection versus a hosted connection.
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