Digital Realty to provide Ashburn Campus new AWS Direct Connect location

Digital Realty says that a new AWS Direct Connect on-ramp region is available at Digital Realty’s Ashburn Campus which will enable its customers to access to AWS services via a single cross connect.

Digital Realty’s customers located on its Ashburn Campus will be able to connect their private infrastructure to the AWS US East (Northern Virginia) Region, allowing the optimization of hybrid architecture solutions. Enterprise customers will benefit from low-latency, high-performance, secure, and cost-efficient connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

With the addition of the Ashburn Campus, PlatformDIGITAL® now hosts 16 AWS Direct Connect cloud on-ramps globally in Amsterdam, Ashburn, Atlanta, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Dublin, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Seattle, Stockholm, Vienna, and Zurich. Customers can interconnect directly in these locations, as well as leverage virtual access to every AWS Direct Connect location via Digital Realty’s proprietary interconnection solution and orchestration solution ServiceFabric™ from almost 100 locations globally.

The AWS Direct Connect cloud service is the shortest path to customers’ AWS resources. While in transit, customers’ network traffic remains on the AWS global network and never touches the public internet. This reduces the chance of hitting bottlenecks or unexpected increases in latency. When creating a new connection, customers can choose a hosted connection provided by an AWS Direct Connect Delivery Partner or choose a dedicated connection from AWS—and deploy at over 100 AWS Direct Connect locations around the globe. Digital Realty provides the physical meeting place where AWS customers and AWS Partners can establish direct connections to AWS, optimizing hybrid IT solutions.

“With the addition of the Ashburn AWS Direct Connect to our existing locations in Seattle and Atlanta, PlatformDIGITAL® adds coast to coast US coverage to our robust portfolio of AWS Direct Connect locations across EMEA. Our customers increasingly recognize the value of placing their private infrastructure in our facilities to facilitate hybrid architectures across a combination of colocation and one or multiple cloud platforms. The availability of cloud on-ramps, an extensive community of local and global carriers, as well as intelligent orchestration through ServiceFabric™, provides our customers with comprehensive options to modernize their edge-to-cloud networking architectures,” says Chris Sharp, Chief Technology Officer for Digital Realty.

“With AWS Direct Connect, you can transfer data privately and directly from your data center, office, or colocation environment into and out of AWS. These private connections can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than connections over the public internet. Customers can choose dedicated 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 100 Gbps connections, or work with an AWS Direct Connect delivery partner like Digital Realty for hosted connections with bandwidth from 50Mbps to 10 Gbps,” says Emad Benjamin, General Manager for AWS Direct Connect.

"Our customers are increasingly seeking interconnection from the public clouds to our bare metal servers. Digital Realty’s addition of AWS Direct Connect in Virginia improves performance and ease of delivery of these cloud interconnections for our customers," says Richard Nicholas, SVP Strategy & Corporate Development for Hivelocity.