Telx announced the combined availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect with Telx’ Datacenter Connect for Telx clients across the US. Telx clients can now leverage private interconnection to an expanded roster of AWS facilities from coast to coast.
These capabilities can be combined with network services from carriers and cloud service providers interconnecting at Telx data centers.
As recent extreme weather events have shown, clients must consider business continuity and disaster recovery as part of their overall business and IT strategies, Telx said. Increasingly demanding customer expectations and accelerating usage of cloud services and hybrid architectures require a variety of network strategies to connect users, enterprise data centers, colocation facilities and the cloud.
Telx Datacenter Connet offers private access to the AWS network to support requirements for mission-critical systems in the event of a disaster. Clients with international end users can also use Telx’ gateway facilities, international network service providers and the provider’s AWS Direct Connect and Datacenter Connect to enable localized access to their global user base.
Connectivity via Amazon's Direct Connect provides following deployment scenarios for Telx clients:
- Connectivity for direct storage: private, high-throughput access to AWS facilitates periodic migration and replication of data to or from AWS into customer-managed storage solutions.
- Big Data: high-bandwidth connectivity provides customers with the ability to transfer large data volumes into and out of AWS, allowing for import and export of large-scale data sets for high performance computing applications.
- High-performance applications: high bandwidth combined with low-latency connectivity for improved I/O and API response times allows customers to use AWS as an extension of their data center LAN and integrate hybrid cloud strategies into a wide range of applications.
- Custom hybrid architectures: high-throughput access to AWS enables integration of custom hardware solutions into the AWS management system, with real-time streaming of data to and from AWS.