You can advertise the default route via BGP. AWS Direct Connect does not provide managed QoS functionality. Q: How do I add links to my LAG once its set up? One such implementation is explained in thisblog. AWS Direct Connect Gateway private ASN will be used as the AWS side ASN for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session between your network and AWS. You can purchase rack space within the facility housing the AWS Direct Connect location and deploy your equipment nearby. When using AWS Direct Connect, you can connect to VPCs deployed in any AWS Region and Availability Zone. Please note this will cause your ports to go down for a moment while they are reconfigured as a LAG. AWS Direct Connect gateway enables connectivity between on-premises networks and VPCs in any AWS Region. You can use AWS Direct Connect gateway to access any AWS Region(except AWS Regions in China) from any AWS Direct Connect location. Availability Zones, which are connected with low-latency, high-throughput, and highly redundant networking. Yes, you can use this feature to influence egress traffic behavior between two VIFs on the same physical connection. How do I move those? AWS Direct Connect SiteLink is integrated with AWS CloudWatch so you can monitor traffic sent over this link. For additional resiliency, AWS customers can consider using AWS Site to Site VPN terminating on an AWS Transit Gateway as a back up to their AWS Direct Connect connections. A configurable private autonomous system number (ASN) makes it possible to set the ASN on the AWS side of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) session for private or transit VIFs on any newly created AWS Direct Connect Gateway. AWS will provide an ASN of 64512 for the AWS Direct Connect gateway if you don't choose one. AWS Direct Connect is a networking service that provides an alternative to using the internet to connect to AWS. No, an AWS Transit Gateway can only be associated with the AWS Direct Connect gateway attached to transit virtual interface. Yes, AWS Direct Connect offers an SLA. You can choose any private ASN. Q: How do I implement a hub-and-spoke architecture with AWS Direct Connect SiteLink? Q: I am working with an AWS Direct Connect Partner to get private virtual interface (VIF) provisioned for my account, can I use an AWS Direct Connect gateway? (Details can be found in the Virtual private gateway associations entry in our documentation.). For Dedicated Connections, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 100 Gbps ports are available. There is no extra charge for using a LAG. Yes, you can continue to use supported BGP attributes (AS_PATH, Local Pref, NO_EXPORT) on the transit virtual interface. This will prevent all network traffic flowing over that virtual interface until you reduce the number of routes to less than 100. Depending on your use case, you might choose one, the other, or both. Q: Can I convert a LAG back to individual ports? In the case of a transit virtual interface, the AWS account that owns the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud(s) attached to the AWS Transit Gateway associated with the AWS Direct Connect gateway attached to the transit virtual interface is charged. In addition to the AWS global infrastructure, AWS Direct Connect offers several features to help support your data resiliency and backup needs. By attaching transit virtual interface(s) (VIF) to an AWS Direct Connect gateway and associating AWS Transit Gateway(s) with the Direct Connect gateway, you can share transit virtual interface(s) to connect with up to three AWS Transit Gateways. How can I make this change? Refer to AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Recommendations to learn more about achieving highly available network connectivity. No, this feature is currently available for private and transit virtual interfaces only. You will pay applicable egress data charges based on the source remote AWS Region and port hour charges. Q: Whats the max number of links I can have in a LAG group? Q: What are local preference communities for private virtual interfaces (VIFs)? Keep the following topology guidelines in mind when connecting to AWS: For critical production workloads that require high resiliency, it is recommended to have one connection at multiple locations. Thus, we do not recommend customers use AWS Site to Site VPN as a backup for AWS Direct Connect connections with speeds greater than 1 Gbps. It will be available for 1 G, 10 G, and 100 G Dedicated Connection ports. Only the owner of the AWS account that includes the virtual interface can initiate the test. Q: Which AWS account gets charged for the Data Transfer Out performed over a public virtual interface? VPN connections use IPsec to establish encrypted network connectivity between your intranet and an Amazon VPC over the public internet. Q: Are there additional fees when using AWS Direct Connect gateway and working with remote AWS Regions? Highly resilient connections requireredundant hardware, even when connecting from the same physical location. Q: Once the AWS Direct Connect gateway is created, can I change or modify the AWS side ASN? If you've got a moment, please tell us how we can make the documentation better. If the 10 Gbps fails or the prefix is withdrawn, the 1 Gbps interface becomes the return path. This location offers logical redundancy over a single virtual interface (VIF) on a Direct Connect connection. Q: When I associate my existing AWS Direct Connect connection with a LAG, what happens with virtual interfaces (VIFs) already created with a connection? Note that these capacity identifiers will appear by location depending on which Hosted Connection capacities you have at each location. Yes, this feature will work with private virtual interfaces attached with AWS Direct Connect gateway. When connecting to any AWS region, your data will not hairpin via the home region if it is not in the shortest path to your desired AWS region. This configuration offers customers maximum resilience to failure. All AWS Direct Connect locations give access to all global AWS Regions (except China) as shown in our region table. Yes, there are differences. Q: What happens if I advertise more than 100 routes over a Border Gateway Protocol session? Q: How can I tell what Im being charged for AWS Direct Connect SiteLink? It works with any type of AWS Direct Connect connection (dedicated or hosted). Q: Can I use AWS Direct Connect to reach resources running in AWS Local Zones? If you delete the virtual interface, your test history is also deleted. Q: Can I use any ASN - public and private? MACsec is not intended as a replacement for any specific encryption technology. Which private ASN takes precedence, VGW or AWS Direct Connect Gateway? Q:Does AWS Direct Connect SiteLink require BGP? Q: If I have only two ports in my LAG can I still delete one? Multi-account support for AWS Direct Connect gateway is a feature that allows you to associate up to 10 Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) or up to three AWS Transit Gateways from multiple AWS accounts with an AWS Direct Connect gateway. Yes, but only for failover. When the AWS Direct Connect SiteLink feature is enabled at two or more AWS Direct Connect locations, you can send data between those locations, bypassing AWS Regions. Configurable Private Autonomous System Number (ASN). Yes. High-speed connections, such as 100 Gbps dedicated connections, can quickly exhaust MACsecs original 32-bit packet numbering space, which would require you to rotate your encryption keys every few minutes to establish a new Connectivity Association. If you are using a last-mile connectivity partner, check that your last-mile connection can support MACsec. 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 of internet-based connectivity. Each dedicated AWS Direct Connect connection consists of a single dedicated connection between ports on your router and an AWS Direct Connect device. AWS Direct Connect supports1000BASE-LX, 10GBASE-LR, or 100GBASE-LR4 connections over single mode fiber using Ethernet transport. For example, consider the bill for a customer with two separate 200 Mbps Hosted Connections at an AWS Direct Connect location, and no other Hosted Connections at that location. Supported browsers are Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. AWS support for Internet Explorer ends on 07/31/2022. Q: How do I request a cross connect at an AWS Direct Connect location? Q: Can you create a tool to move my virtual interfaces (VIFs) for me? If using an AWS Direct Connect Partner to facilitate an AWS Direct Connect connection, contact the AWS Direct Connect Partner regarding any fees they may charge. Development and Test: You can achieve development and Except as otherwise noted, our prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT and applicable sales tax. You should also cancel any service(s) purchased by a third party. AWS Direct Connect SiteLink is supported on private and transit VIFs. When the test is cancelled, we restore the Border Gateway Protocol session, and your test history reflects that the test was canceled. Q: Can I order a port for AWS GovCloud (US) in the AWS Management Console? Yes, you can run tests for the Border Gateway Protocol session(s) established using any type of virtual interface. AWS Direct Connect Partners help customers establish network connectivity between AWS Direct Connect locations and their data centers, offices or colocation environments. operate applications and databases that automatically fail over between Availability Zones without interruption. If you've got a moment, please tell us what we did right so we can do more of it. Q: What are local preference communities for private and transit virtual interfaces (VIFs)? If you have more than one link in your LAG, and if your minimum links are set to one, your LAG will let you protect against single link failure. 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. Minimumlinks is a feature in LACP where you can set the minimum number of links that must be active in a bundle for that bundle to be active and pass traffic. Path MTU discovery is supported and recommended. Yes. Q: Can I use AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a backup for my AWS Direct Connect link to an AWS Local Zone? Each AWS Direct Connect connection can be configured with one or more virtual interfaces. Q: How do I cancel the AWS Direct Connect service? An AWS Direct Connect gateway is a globally available resource. Q: Do I need to use the same AWS account with my private/transit virtual interfaces(s), AWS Direct Connect gateway, Virtual Private Gateway, or AWS Transit Gateways in order to use an AWS Direct Connect gateway? If you resize your VPC, you must resend the proposal with the resized VPC CIDR to the AWS Direct Connect gateway owner. Traffic to/from public resources, such as Amazon S3, will be routed over the internet. Please refer to the AWS Direct Connect quotas page for information on this topic. See additional information that follows to understand how data transfer will be billed. Q: Will Regional data transfer be billed at the AWS Direct Connect rate? The AWS side ASN you receive depends on your private virtual interface association. If you do not have a backup AWS Direct Connect link or an IPsec VPN link, then Amazon VPC traffic will be dropped in the event of a failure. Bring up multiple AWS Direct Connect gateways, and associate subsets of AWS Direct Connect SiteLink-enabled private virtual interfaces (VIFs) with each. Q: What is the format for Hosted Connection port-hour charges? Q: When should I use AWS Direct Connect SiteLink and when should I use AWS Cloud WAN? Yes. Q: What is the AWS Direct Connect Failover Testing feature? Please refer to Jumbo Frame documentation here to know more. It can take up to 40 minutes to establish an association between AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect gateway. The access to the CloudFront edge locations will be restricted to the geographically nearest AWS Region, with the exception of the North America Regions which currently allow access to all North American Region's on-net CloudFront origins. Q: Can I run failover tests for any type of virtual interface? You can change theminimum links value after youve set up the bundle, either using the AWS Management Console or using an API. Q: Can I associate AWS Transit Gateway that are owned by any AWS account with an AWS Direct Connect gateway that is owned by any AWS account? Except as otherwise noted, our prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT and applicable sales tax. Services provided by AWS Direct Connect Partners may have other terms or restrictions that apply. See AWS Direct Connect Partnersfor more information. For a month with 720 total hours, the port-hour total for this item will be 1,440, or the total number of hours in the month multiplied by the total number of 200 Mbps Hosted Connections at this location. Q: What types of virtual interfaces (VIFs) are supported by AWS Direct Connect SiteLink? You work with a Direct Connect Partnerif you need assistance extending your office or data center network to a AWS Direct Connect location. For additional resiliency, customers can also explore the use of multi-region failover. If, for example, you have four ports, yourminimum links is set to three, and you only have two active ports, your bundle will not be active. No, you can create LAG using the same type of ports (either 1 G or 10 G). To connect to a Region, first extend your VPC from the parent Region into AWS Local Zones by creating a new subnet and assigning it to the AWS Local Zone. Q: Can I establish a Layer 2 connection between VPC and my network? You can view the AWS side ASN in the AWS Direct Connect console and in the response of the DescribeDirectConnectGateways or DescribeVirtualInterfaces API operations. Yes, you can use same private ASNs for your AWS Direct Connect Gateway and Virtual Private Gateway. To use AWS Direct Connect SiteLink, you must connect AWS Direct Connect SiteLink-enabled virtual interfaces (VIFs) to an AWS Direct Connect gateway. As with any AWS Direct Connect location, this locations conforms to the standard resiliency model that includes two customer facing devices per location that allow customers to establish locally resilient and redundant physical connectivity to the Amazon backbone network. See the information that follows below for more details on AWS Direct Connect, Bring Your Own ASN. Q: Can I verify that communities are being received by AWS? High Resiliency: You can achieve high resiliency for For more information about AWS Regions and Availability Zones, see AWS Global Unlike connectivity to a Region, you cannot use an AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a backup to your AWS Direct Connect connection to an AWS Local Zone. We support 32-bit ASNs from 4200000000 to 4294967294. Supported browsers are Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. This feature is an additional knob you can use to get better control over the incoming traffic from AWS. A virtual interface (VIF) is necessary to access AWS services, and is either public or private. Q: What type of traffic is, and is not, supported by AWS Direct Connect gateway? Q: Why is an AWS Direct Connect gateway necessary? You can associate multiple virtual private gateways (VGWs, associated with a VPC) to an AWS Direct Connect gateway, as long as the IP CIDR blocks of the Amazon VPC associated with the Virtual Private Gateway do not overlap. Learn more. Features that are not currently supported by AWS Direct Connect are; AWS Classic VPN, AWS VPN (such as edge-to-edge routing), VPC peering, VPC endpoints. Traffic from your on-premises network to the detached VPC will stop, and VGW's association with the AWS Direct Connect gateway will be deleted. Second, ingress routing destinations do not route directly to AWS Local Zones. Private virtual interfaces and AWS Direct Connect gateways must be in the same AWS account. You will need a MACsec-capable device on your end of the Ethernet connection to an AWS Direct Connect location. What happens if I detach one of the VGW from the VPC? 802.1AE MAC Security (MACsec) is an IEEE standard that provides data confidentiality, data integrity, and data origin authenticity. Your Border Gateway Protocol session will go down if you advertise over 100 routes over a Border Gateway Protocol session. In order to send traffic between two VPCs, you must configure a VPC peering connection. We treat all links as equal, so we wont set link priority on any specific link. Q: Can I extend one of my VLANs to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect? Q: I have two AWS Direct Connect connections, one is 1 Gbps and another is 10 Gbps, and both are advertising the same prefix. Q: Can I attach a virtual private gateway (VGW) to an AWS Direct Connect gateway if it is not attached to a VPC? a device failure. You will still have intra-Region VPC connectivity, and will be charged the egress rate for the related geographic Regions. If you are connecting to an AWS Local Zone subnet through an AWS Transit Gateway, your traffic enters the parent Region, is processed by your AWS Transit Gateway, is sent to the AWS Local Zone, then returns (or hairpins) from the Region. AWS support for Internet Explorer ends on 07/31/2022. If you are configuring a virtual interface to the public AWS Cloud, the IP addresses for both ends of the connection must be allocated from public IP space that you own. Q: Is Quality of Service (QoS) supported on AWS Direct Connect SiteLink-enabled virtual interfaces (VIFs)? You can configure your VIF to enable or disable AWS Direct Connect SiteLink using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, or APIs. Yes, as long as the VPC route table has routes to the virtual private gateway (VGW) towards the VPN. Yes. Support for AWS Transit Gateway is available in all commercial AWS Regions. AWS Direct Connect follows the standard approach for path selection. All rights reserved. Q: Can I have v4 and v6 BGP sessions running over a single VPN tunnel? Q: Can I create a LAG out of my existing ports? model provides resiliency against connectivity failures caused by a fiber cut or Yes, if your ports are on the same AWS Direct Connect device. 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. AWS Direct Connect SiteLink, on the other hand, connects DX locations together, bypassing AWS Regions to improve performance. Learn more about AWS Direct Connect pricing. Q: Does AWS Direct Connect SiteLink support MACsec? Details are here. The VPC Virtual Private Gateway (VGW) ID AWS will allocate private IPs (/30) in the 169.x.x.x range for the BGP session and will advertise the VPC CIDR block over BGP. Yes, you can associate a provisioned private virtual interface (VIF) with your AWS Direct Connect gateway when you confirm that you are provisioned as private in your AWS account. for critical workloads by using separate connections that terminate on separate Yes. With the introduction of the granular Data Transfer Out allocation feature, the AWS account responsible for the Data Transfer Out will be charged for the Data Transfer Out performed over a transit/private virtual interface. For AWS Direct Connect pricing information, Refer to the AWS Direct Connect pricing page for more detailed information.