AWS Direct Connect now supports VIF Rate Limiters to help prevent network congestion
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
As cloud adoption matures and enterprise workloads migrate to AWS at scale, managing network performance and preventing congestion becomes critical for maintaining application reliability and user experience.
This update provides customers with finer-grained control over their dedicated network connections, ensuring predictable performance for critical workloads and mitigating risks associated with shared bandwidth.
Customers can now implement rate limiting on individual Virtual Interfaces within a Direct Connect connection, allowing for more robust and resilient network designs within AWS environments.
- · AWS enterprise customers
- · Cloud solution architects
- · Network security vendors
Improved network stability and reliability for AWS Direct Connect users.
Reduced operational overhead for managing unexpected traffic spikes and associated service disruptions.
Potentially enables more complex and performance-sensitive hybrid cloud architectures with greater confidence in network guarantees.
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