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Securing AWS Direct Connect

Securing AWS Direct Connect - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Securing AWS Direct Connect

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Hey guys, in this lesson, we'll look at securing AWS Direct Connect. So a quick review of Direct Connect or DX. So we have a region here with a VPC in it, and then we have a corporate data center. And we want to have high bandwidth, low latency connection into our VPC. So what we can do is establish a Direct Connect connection. Now the way that we do that is we connect to an AWS Direct Connect location, which hopefully is close to our data center. For that, we have to provision a private link, usually using a service provider. Within that Direct Connect location, there's a customer or partner cage. So that's where your router would be, or if you're using a service provider, their router. And then there's an AWS cage. And essentially, a DX port is allocated in the DX location. And then a cross-connect is established between the customer partner cage router and the AWS cage router. Now what can happen is the customer router, which is within the corporate data center, is connected using…

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