Partners Praise AWS For Solving Intra-Region Connectivity Challenges With New Offering

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday resolved a major connectivity problem for partners working with some of their most important customers to extend virtual networks across multiple AWS regions in their backbone network.

The new service, Direct Connect Gateway, allows customers with private direct connection circuits that connect their AWS access data centers to the Amazon cloud in other geographic areas without significant investment in terms of time, money and administrative power.

Gateway makes it "simpler and more powerful than direct connection," commented Jeff Barr, AWS principal evangelist.

Partners told CRN that they expected the public cloud leader's ability and often listened to customers that the difficulties in the AWS regions have made them reluctant to adopt the dedicated connectivity solution.

Tom Ray, director of Cloudreach, an international cloud computing consultancy, said clients were asking for an intraregional capability for a long time.

Partners told CRN that they expected the public cloud leader's ability and often listened to customers that the difficulties in the AWS regions have made them reluctant to adopt the dedicated connectivity solution.

Tom Ray, director of Cloudreach, an international cloud computing consultancy, said clients were asking for an intraregional capability for a long time.

According to Amazon, there are more than 60 colocation service providers worldwide that offer direct connection. These dedicated links provide more predictable security, bandwidth and data transfer performance.