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AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.  Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.

• Reduce costs when using large volumes of traffic
• Increase reliability
• Increase bandwidth

Direct Connect vs VPN

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 in Internet-based connectivity.

Direct Connect does not involve the Internet – instead, it uses dedicated, private network connections between your intranet and Amazon VPC.

Direct Connect speeds are available in:

• 10Gbps
• 1Gbps
• Sub 1Bvps through AWS Direct Connect Partners
• Uses Ethernet VLAN trunking 802.1Q