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2025-06-26

AWS announces 100G expansion in Jakarta, Indonesia

Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the AWS Direct Connect location in the NTT Jakarta 2 data center center near Jakarta, Indonesia. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This is the second AWS Direct Connect location in Jakarta to provide 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption capabilities.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.

For more information on the over 142 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

2025-05-12

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Istanbul, Türkiye

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix IL4 data center near Istanbul, Türkiye. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location within Türkiye. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.

For more information on the over 149 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

2025-05-08

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Brisbane, Australia

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEXTDC B2 data center near Brisbane, Australia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Brisbane and the eighth AWS Direct connect location within Australia. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.

For more information on the over 148 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

2025-05-05

Amazon Connect Contact Lens real-time dashboards are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Connect Contact Lens real-time queue and agent performance dashboards, and flows performance dashboards are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), a secure cloud environment designed for government and public sector customers. The new dashboard lets you monitor real-time agent activity and take immediate actions such as listen-in to a contact, barge (take over) a contact, or change an agent state in a few clicks from a single interface. The dashboards now allow you to define widget level filters and groupings, re-order and re-size columns, and delete or add new metrics. With these dashboards, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. For example, you can automatically highlight in red if an agent is an error state to give a quick visual indicator of where agents might need additional help to change their status back to available.

Amazon Connect Contact Len’s dashboards are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about dashboards, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.

2025-03-31

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Athens, Greece

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty ATH3 data center near Athens, Greece. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location within Greece. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.

For more information on the over 147 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.
 

2025-03-14

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Lisbon, Portugal

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix LS1 data center near Lisbon, Portugal. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location within Portugal. The new Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.

For more information on the over 145 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

2025-01-14

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location and expansion in Querétaro, Mexico

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix MX1, Querétaro, Mexico data center near Mexico City. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the second AWS Direct Connect location within Mexico. The new Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.

AWS also announced the addition of 10Gbps and 100Gbps MACsec services in the existing KIO Networks data center in Querétaro, Mexico.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.

For more information on the over 145 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

2025-01-08

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location and expansion in Bangkok, Thailand

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse Bangkok, Thailand data center. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Bangkok location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the second AWS Direct Connect location within Thailand. The new Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.

AWS also announced the addition of 10Gbps and 100Gbps MACsec services in the existing TCC, Bangkok Direct Connect location.

The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.

For more information on the over 145 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.
 

AWS Direct Connect blog posts

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2025-06-26

Revolutionizing Cloud Connectivity with Polarin and AWS

As enterprises shift toward cloud-first strategies, reliable and secure connectivity becomes a foundational requirement. Polarin by Lightstorm addresses this need with a software-defined, Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform built on AWS Direct Connect. It allows businesses to provision private, low-latency connections across cloud environments in minutes—delivering the agility, performance, and cost efficiency modern enterprises demand.
2025-05-02

Simplify hybrid inspection using AWS Cloud WAN service insertion

Organizations face the complex challenge when managing and securing networks across multiple AWS Regions, cloud environments, and on-premises locations. AWS Cloud WAN helps users manage distributed networks through a unified approach. The service streamlines network management by providing a single network policy framework, segmentation capabilities, dynamic route propagation, and monitoring through a centralized dashboard. AWS [...]
2025-01-29

Optimizing data transfers for high throughput life science instruments using AWS DataSync

Healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) customers are generating more data than ever as they integrate the use of omics data with applications in drug discovery, clinical development, molecular diagnostics, and population health. The rate and volume of data that HCLS laboratories generate are a reflection of their lab instrumentation and day-to-day lab operations. Efficiently moving [...]
2025-01-24

Securing the future of healthcare in the age of generative AI and connected care

The healthcare industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and connected care devices. This digital revolution promises to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance the overall healthcare experience. However, it also introduces new challenges in terms of cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance. To navigate this complex landscape, healthcare organizations are turning to scalable, affordable, and highly available cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build resilient, secure, and innovative solutions.
2024-12-12

Agile satellite communication ground systems with Amazon EC2 F2 FPGA solutions

In this post, we provide technical guidance to help satellite operators build, deploy, and analyze satcom waveforms on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Details are provided about the orchestration of multiple waveforms, including an example of one Amazon Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Image being swapped in for another. We analyze the FPGA utilization and metrics in Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon QuickSight, and validate network performance against system latency requirements. Finally, we recommend actions you can take to build an agile satcom strategy.
2024-12-11

Encrypt DNS queries using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) with Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints

Customers frequently use on-premises DNS infrastructure to resolve DNS queries for internal domains. In 2018, we announced Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints, which enable customers to integrate Route 53 with their on-premises DNS infrastructure for hybrid DNS resolution. In 2023, we improved this integration by providing customers the ability to encrypt DNS queries and responses [...]
2024-11-20

Add network agility and security with AWS Direct Connect MACsec encryption and AWS Support

Customers with sensitive hybrid workloads can take advantage of an additional security feature available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect dedicated connections: MACsec encryption (IEEE 802.1AE). In this post, we explore how Direct Connect can handle architectural changes, such as adding or isolating different networks. We also cover adding an additional account boundary for security purposes, and how customers can move their Direct Connect connection to that new account.
2024-11-12

AWS Snow device updates

Since its launch in 2015, customers have used AWS Snow devices to move data to the AWS Cloud or run compute and processing workloads at the edge. Our innovations since have made moving data to AWS and running workloads at the edge, faster, more efficient, and more cost effective. During the same time, network bandwidth [...]