AWS Direct Connect now supports Virtual Interface (VIF) Rate Limiters on dedicated connections, which help you prevent network congestion caused by unexpected traffic spikes on a VIF which can potentially consume all available bandwidth, impacting workloads on other VIFs on the same connection. With VIF Rate Limiters, you can set a maximum bandwidth allocation for up to 10 VIFs on a dedicated connection, choosing from a wide range available capacity increments from 50 Mbps to 1.6 Tbps when using a link aggregation group. Rate limiting applies to traffic both ingressing and egressing the AWS ne
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