Mastering Python Networking - Second Edition

Direct Connect

The IPSec VPN connection we saw is an easy way to provide connectivity for on-premise equipment to the AWS cloud resources. However, it suffers the same faults that IPSec over the internet always does: it is unreliable, and we have very little control over it. There is very little performance monitoring and no Service-Level Agreement (SLA) until the connection reaches a part of the internet that we can control.

For all of these reasons, any production-level, mission-critical traffic is more likely to traverse through the second option Amazon provides, that is, AWS Direct Connect. AWS Direct Connect allows customers to connect their data center and colocation to their AWS VPC with a dedicated virtual circuit. The somewhat difficult ...