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Beginning May 2016 Cornell AWS accounts are setup with AWS Direct Connect (DC) joining the campus 10-space network to the 10-space network in Cornell Standard AWS VPCs. Prior to that accounts were setup with VPN connection back to campus. |
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FAQs
What is the difference in performance between the Direct Connects and a VPN connection.
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We upgraded the secondary path from 100Mbits/s to 200Mbits/s in November 2019.
As of August 2021, we have had only once instance where the primary Direct Connect circuit was briefly saturated with AWS-bound traffic. It looked like this (blue is AWS-bound, green is campus-bound):
What are the requirements for using Direct Connect?
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