Introducing AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect provides a facility to create a dedicated network (private connectivity) connection between AWS and a traditional data center or on-premise network or colocation environment. The very first question should be: why it is required when we can access AWS resources over internet? The answer is as follows:

• It is used to transfer data without using the public internet
• Secure and consistent network
• A high-bandwidth network connection between on-premise network and single or multiple VPCs is available in AWS. The next question is about capacity, right?
  • It provides 1 GBps and 10 GBps connections
• Compatibility with AWS services:
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud 
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service 

Now another question: How does it work?

• The on-premise router and the AWS Direct Connect router...