(Details can be found in the Virtual private gateway associations entry in our documentation.). For MACsec to work, your dedicated connection must be transparent to Layer 2 traffic and the device terminating the Layer 2 adjacency must support MACsec. Yes, all existing BGP sessions on private virtual interfaces support the use of local preference communities. See additional information that follows to understand how data transfer will be billed. model provides resiliency against connectivity failures caused by a fiber cut or Q: Do I need new AWS Direct Connect connections to use AWS Direct Connect SiteLink, and do they need to be the same type? Q: How does AWS Direct Connect work with consolidated billing? The AWS side ASN you receive depends on your private virtual interface association. Yes, AWS Direct Connect offers an SLA. 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? resiliency model, and then the AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Toolkit guides you through the dedicated For example, contact the colocation provider to disconnect any cross-connects to AWS Direct Connect, and/or a network service provider who is providing network connectivity from your remote locations to the AWS Direct Connect location. The AWS Direct Connect Failover Testing feature allows you to test the resiliency of your AWS Direct Connect connection by disabling the Border Gateway Protocol session between your on-premises networks and AWS. test resiliency for non-critical workloads by using separate connections that Virtual interfaces may be configured to access AWS services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 using public IP space, or resources in a VPC using private IP space. Some AWS customers would like the benefits of one or more AWS Direct Connect connections for their primary connectivity to AWS, coupled with a lower-cost backup connection. Yes. The AWS Direct Connect path will always be preferred, when established, regardless of AS path prepending. Q: I currently have a VPN in us-east-1 attached to a virtual private gateway (VGW). Q: What are the supported local preference communities for an AWS Direct Connect private virtual interface? Q: Can I add more transit virtual interfaces to the connection? Transit virtual interface(s) are used to interface with AWS Transit Gateway(s). Prefixes belonging to CloudFront locations that are not inside the Amazon backbone network will not be advertised through 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. This model provides This allows customers to set the ASN on the AWS side of the BGP session for private VIFs on any newly created AWS Direct Connect Gateway. Q: What is a virtual private gateway (VGW)? All Hosted Connection port-hour charges at an AWS Direct Connect location are grouped by capacity. Yes. A transit virtual interface is a type of virtual interface you can create on any AWS Direct Connect connection with a capacity of 1 Gbps or more (1/2/5/10/100 Gbps). Q: Whats the max number of links I can have in a LAG group? Yes. All rights reserved. For AWS Direct Connect pricing information, Refer to the AWS Direct Connect pricing page for more detailed information. 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. After you have downloaded your Letter of Authorization and Connecting Facility Assignment (LOA-CFA), you must complete your cross-network connection. critical workloads by using two single connections to multiple locations. Please see the AWS Direct Connect website for details on our locations, their associated home regions, the support of logical redundancy and pricing. Q: Can I have a 40 GE interface on my side that connects to 4x 10 GE on the AWS side? For example, if you have 3x 1 G links, and would like to add a fourth, and we do not have a port available on that device, you must order a new LAG of 4x 1 G ports. We recommend establishing a second connection for redundancy. At this time, we only allow v4 BGP session running single VPN tunnel with IPv4 address. 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. For prefixes that are advertised from your on-premises networks, each VPC associated with an AWS Direct Connect gateway receives all prefixes announced from your on-premises networks. Yes, but just like a regular connection you wont be able to delete it if you have VIFs configured. 802.1AE MAC Security (MACsec) is an IEEE standard that provides data confidentiality, data integrity, and data origin authenticity. A public virtual interface enables access to public services, such as Amazon S3. How can I make this change? Yes, if your ports are on the same AWS Direct Connect device. You can advertise the default route via BGP. Q: How do I add links to my LAG once its set up? We support only 256-bit MACsec keys to provide the latest advanced data protection. Q: How do I set up AWS Direct Connect for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region? 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. When the test is cancelled, we restore the Border Gateway Protocol session, and your test history reflects that the test was canceled. For non-critical production workloads and development workloads that do not require high resiliency, it is recommended to have at least two connections terminating on different devices at a single location. To complete the connection, you will need: A public or private ASN. Q: Can I use any ASN - public and private? 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. Which private ASN takes precedence, VGW or AWS Direct Connect Gateway? It can take up to 40 minutes to establish an association between AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect gateway. All AWS Direct Connect locations give access to all global AWS Regions (except China) as shown in our region table. A new unused VLAN tag that you select. Yes, as long as the VPC route table has routes to the virtual private gateway (VGW) towards the VPN. Q: Will this feature work with an AWS Direct Connect gateway? The AWS account responsible for the Data Transfer Out will be determined based on the customers use of the private/transit virtual interface as follows: Private virtual interface(s) is used to interface with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud(s) with or without AWS Direct Connect gateway(s). Because AWS Transit Gateway is not supported in AWS Local Zonesand a DXGW that is associated with an AWS Transit Gateway cannot be associated with a VGWyou cannot associate a DXGW associated with an AWS Transit Gateway. If you are using a public ASN, you must own it. When you request multiple ports at the same AWS Direct Connect location, they will be provisioned on redundant AWS equipment. Each AWS Direct Connect connection can be configured with one or more virtual interfaces. Q: Can I delete a single port from my LAG? The following local preference BGP community tags are supported: 7224:7100 - Low preference 7224:7200 - Medium preference 7224:7300 - High preference. Q: I have already configured my routers with AS_PATH, do I need to change the configuration to use community tags and disrupt my network? You can use the AWS Management Console or API operations to create transit virtual interface. Learn more about AWS Direct Connect limits. When using AWS Direct Connect, you can connect to VPCs deployed in any AWS Region and Availability Zone. Yes, you can review your test history using the AWS Management Console or through AWS CloudTrail. 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. A private virtual interface enables access to your VPC. Q: Youre out of ports and I have to order a new LAG, but I have Virtual Interfaces (VIFs) configured. Your device configuration also must change appropriately. Bring up multiple AWS Direct Connect gateways, and associate subsets of AWS Direct Connect SiteLink-enabled private virtual interfaces (VIFs) with each. Q: Can I use this feature for my existing EBGP sessions? The maximum number of links is 4x in a LAG group. Q: Do you support the use of Secure Channel Identifier (SCI)? Q: Does having a link aggregation group (LAG) make my connection more resilient? For more information, see Using the AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Toolkit to get started. You select a resiliency model, and then the AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Toolkit guides you through the dedicated connection ordering process. Details are here. AWS Direct Connect has two separate charges: port hours and data transfer. You can assign any private ASN to the AWS side. Additionally, it is a best practice to use dynamically routed, active/active connections for automatic load balancing and failover across redundant network connections. Q: Can I run failover tests for any type of virtual interface? Only the owner of the AWS account that includes the virtual interface can initiate the test. VPN connections use IPsec to establish encrypted network connectivity between your intranet and an Amazon VPC over the public internet. Bear in mind that local preference is evaluated before the AS_PATH attribute. Click here to return to Amazon Web Services homepage, A complete list of AWS Direct Connect locations is available on the AWS Direct Connect, For AWS Direct Connect pricing information, Refer to the AWS Direct Connect. Configurable Private Autonomous System Number (ASN). Can I do this with AWS Direct Connect gateway? Q: Can I locate my hardware next to the equipment that powers AWS Direct Connect? Q: Can I mix interface types and have a few 1 G ports and a few 10 G ports in the same LAG? You can choose any private ASN. This can be accomplished by advertising prefixes over the primary/active virtual interface with a community for higher local preference than prefixes advertised over the backup/passive virtual interface. This connection requires the use of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) with an Autonomous System Number (ASN) and IP Prefixes. Q: How does AWS Direct Connect differ from an IPsec VPN Connection? Q: If I don't provide an ASN for the AWS half of the BGP session, what ASN can I expect from AWS? 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. Yes, you can continue to use supported BGP attributes (AS_PATH, Local Pref, NO_EXPORT) on the transit virtual interface. You can continue to attach your virtual interfaces (VIFs) to virtual private gateways (VGWs). Q: How do I configure AWS Local Zones to work with AWS Direct Connect? You can also provide 32-bit ASNs between 4200000000 and 4294967294. Note that these capacity identifiers will appear by location depending on which Hosted Connection capacities you have at each location. Private virtual interfaces and AWS Direct Connect gateways must be in the same AWS account. Q: What is the AWS Direct Connect Failover Testing feature? The LAG at your endpoint can be configured with LACP active or passive modes. Once a transit VIF is connected to an AWS Direct Connect Gateway, that Gateway cannot also host another Private VIF - it is dedicated to the transit VIF. There are no charges for using an AWS Direct Connect gateway. AWS support for Internet Explorer ends on 07/31/2022. Q: When I associate my existing AWS Direct Connect connection with a LAG, what happens with virtual interfaces (VIFs) already created with a connection? Discover more AWS Direct Connect resources. It will only be available for 1 G, 10 G, and 100 G Dedicated Connections. We suggest you create the new VIFs on your new LAG, and then move the connections over to the new LAG once youve created all of your VIFs. We require SCI to be on. Q: How do I order connections to AWS Direct Connect for high availability? For publicly addressable AWS resources (for example, Amazon S3 buckets, Classic EC2 instances, or EC2 traffic that goes through an internet gateway), if the outbound traffic is destined for public prefixes owned by the same AWS payer account and actively advertised to AWS through an AWS Direct Connect public virtual Interface, the Data Transfer Out (DTO) usage is metered toward the resource owner at the AWS Direct Connect data transfer rate. AWS will provide an ASN of 64512 for the AWS Direct Connect gateway if you don't choose one. for critical workloads by using separate connections that terminate on separate You can check if your existing connection is MACsec-capable through the AWS Management Console or by using the DescribeConnectionsAWS Direct Connect API. Q: Where and how do I configure AWS Direct Connect SiteLink? AWS Direct Connect data transfer usage will be aggregated to your management account. Except as otherwise noted, our prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT and applicable sales tax. Q: What is an AWS Direct Connect gateway? An AWS Direct Connect gateway is a grouping of virtual private gateways (VGWs) and private virtual interfaces (VIFs). Q: What does minimum links mean, and why do I have a check box for it when I order my bundle? Q: I currently have a VPN in us-east-1 that is attached to a virtual private gateway (VGW). Refer to the MAC Security section of our user guide to verify supported operation modes and required MACsec features. You must advertise public IP prefixes (/31or smaller) that you ownor are AWS-providedvia BGP. Please refer to this documentto learn more about this feature.