Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-02 Thread Michael O'Connor
ESnet employs MPLS virtual circuits from our customer sites to VLANs connecting over DX cross connects in US-EAST and US-WEST regions. Exploring the DX provider paradigm we have demonstrated that the billing of the DX network service can be billed to the provider with the compute costs billed

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-02 Thread James Bensley
On 1 March 2016 at 20:41, Michael O'Connor wrote: > Jay, > > VPC is supported over IPsec if your public path is sufficient into the AWS > cloud. ^ This. I work for a DirectConnect provider, albeit in the UK though. We have fibre links to a AWS edge routers and we have multiple

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-02 Thread Bevan Slattery
ke Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> Midwest-IX >> http://www.midwest-ix.com >> >> - Original Message - >> >> From: "Michael O'Connor" <m...@es.net> >> To: "Jay R. Ashworth" &l

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-01 Thread Mike Hammett
na...@ics-il.net> Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 7:28:34 PM Subject: Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS I can confirm that AWS (and Equinix, by extension, from a facility operator perspective)

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-01 Thread Dave Cohen
; > - Original Message - > > From: "Michael O'Connor" <m...@es.net> > To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <j...@baylink.com> > Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 2:41:35 PM >

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-01 Thread Mike Hammett
et> To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <j...@baylink.com> Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 2:41:35 PM Subject: Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS Jay, VPC is supported over IPsec if yo

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-01 Thread Michael O'Connor
Jay, VPC is supported over IPsec if your public path is sufficient into the AWS cloud. AWS shortens DirectConnect to DX not DC for some reason. The AWS DirectConnect service is built on 10G infrastructure so using potentially larger interconnects over public peerings with IPsec could be

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-01 Thread Luan Nguyen
Not sure about AWS, but if you are a client of Dimension Data cloud, you don't need to do anything. Everything will be taking care off from the provider perspective. Didata will peer with your tier 1/MPLS - acts as CPE...etc I am pretty sure AWS does that for you as well. Else you could spin up a

Re: AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-01 Thread George Herbert
If you're asking if one can get a provider's router to handle the outside physical part of a DC connection... As an ISP service so you don't need your own router hardware... I was working on this for a recent ex client and asked Level 3 exactly that question. I believe I had the right

AWS Direct Connect - Peering VPCs to Tier 1's and MPLS

2016-03-01 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
Just got this dropped on my desk an hour ago, and I'm not finding as much material online as I might have hoped for... It looks like the easiest solution is to just hang a router/firewall at Equinix Ashburn and AWS-DC to that, and then peer it to carriers both IP and MPLS; is there a "native" way