Amazon Direct Connect (AWS Direct Connect)

Wasabi Direct Connect and AWS Direct Connect are private line connectivity services that provide a dedicated network connection from your premises to the cloud service provider's storage network.

The following are additional questions and answers about how Wasabi provides support for AWS Direct Connect services to connect to Wasabi storage.

I currently have an AWS Direct Connect service from my data center to an AWS region. Does Wasabi support the AWS Direct Connect solution to a Wasabi region?

Wasabi supports AWS direct connect services from an AWS account to a Wasabi account. A reference model would look like this:

your_AWS_resources——your_responsibility——meet_me_point——Wasabi_responsibility——Wasabi_storage_region

For additional information, refer to Connecting to Wasabi With Direct Connect.

How much does Wasabi Direct Connect cost?

The monthly port price of Wasabi Direct Connect is competitive with other Direct Connect providers offering 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 100 Gbps ports. Wasabi also supports sub-rate direct connect options through our established cloud services providers. Contact for more information.

Note that Wasabi Direct Connect is available only on a monthly basis. With Wasabi Direct Connect, there are no additional fees for data transfer (in or out) under our free egress policy (unlike AWS Direct Connect, which charges a data transfer-out fee on top of the port fee). The minimum subscription term for Wasabi Direct Connect is 12 months.

I know one can do a free trial of Wasabi’s storage service; but is a free trial of Wasabi Direct Connect also possible?

A free trial of Wasabi Direct Connect is not available at this time. The provisioning of these direct connect methods requires the manual setup of transport connectivity and associated third-party fees that do not allow for a free trial.

How do I get my Wasabi or AWS Direct Connect connection to Wasabi’s storage regions and are there extra fees?

Contact Wasabi Sales to order the Wasabi Direct Connect services. Wasabi Sales will contact you for more information on the technical requirements.