Amazon Direct Connect Connectivity

Reliable, scalable and secure Cloud connectivity

As your organisation seeks to increase its ability to react to market movements and manage costs, no doubt you’re increasing your existing Cloud Computing services.

The global leader in Cloud Computing is Amazon Web Services with a host of services and applications designed to reduce costs and improve agility.

Connecting to Cloud services across the public Internet comes with increased security and performance issues for mission critical applications. Many organisations are now connecting to cloud services via a dedicated, private network for increased security, performance and scalability.

Exponential-e is an approved Amazon Direct Connect Solution Provider – one of only a handful in the UK.

Our network provides a dedicated, private and high-performance connection between Amazon Web Services and your data centre, office or colocation environment.

Private Cloud connectivity:

The private connection into your Cloud environment provides predictable latency and high-performance access over our 100GigE core network.

Our network reach is one of the most expansive in the UK including thousands of on-net locations and access to over 30 data centres.

Exponential-e’s Amazon Web Services Direct Connect connectivity provides a private connection into your cloud environment with the following features:

• Up to 10Mbps to 1Gbps connections
• Private 802.1q VLAN for less than 1Gbps
• Dedicated port and cross connect for 1Gbps + connections
• Over 30 major UK on-net data centres
• Delivered over business-only fibre-based network
• Scalable capacity.

Bypassing the public Internet and using a private connection provides the following advantages:

• Consistent and reliable network connection to your cloud services
• Rapid deployment of new services and applications
• Secure and private connectivity — avoiding Internet traffic
• Access to a wide range of cloud services and applications
• Lower network costs by avoiding Internet transfer and bandwidth charges
• Increase performance by bypassing congested Internet connections.