Network Engineer

amigan_99

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Thank you very much. Well so much for my plan to throw the fiber cable over the cage. :-)
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Thank you very much. Well so much for my plan to throw the fiber cable over the cage. :-)

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If your data center is in the same data center as an AWS Availability Zone data center - would it be <br />
possible to create a Direct Connect just by patching from your gear to theirs? That is - is there a <br />
way you could avoid some of expense of a carrier getting packets to/from AWS by virtue of being<br />
physically located in one of their data centers?
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If your data center is in the same data center as an AWS Availability Zone data center - would it be 
possible to create a Direct Connect just by patching from your gear to theirs? That is - is there a 
way you could avoid some of expense of a carrier getting packets to/from AWS by virtue of being
physically located in one of their data centers?

Can you reduce AWS DX cost by being in the same CoLo facility as AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.

Network design and methodology, also known as network architecture, is the design of a communication network. It is a framework for the specification of a network's physical components and their functional organization and configuration, its operational principles and procedures, as well as data formats used in its operation. In telecommunication, the specification of a network architecture may also include a detailed description of products and services delivered via a communications network, as well as detailed rate and billing structures under which services are compensated.