Customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS), New York and London now have more options to establish secure and direct connections to the cloud.
Telehouse, a London-based colocation and datacenter provider, announced Tuesday that it will add support for AWS to its TelehouseCloud Link solution. Telehouse customers can connect to their cloud-based assets through a single private connection. This reduces their security risk.
Cloud Link was launched this spring and initially supported only direct connections to Microsoft’s cloud. Tuesday’s announcement expands this capability to AWS.
Telehouse lauds the service for London-based enterprises that need to manage hybrid cloud environments efficiently and with low latency.
“Telehouse continues meeting the demands of its enterprise clients by offering services that deliver speed-to-market, flexibility, and scalability through its extensive [London] Docklands network of service providers,” stated Ken Sakai (Managing Director of Telehouse Europe) in a prepared statement. Telehouse Cloud Link provides secure and private access through Telehouse Cloud Link to the cloud service provider Amazon Web Services, allowing customers to manage hybrid IT solutions with Telehouse.
Equinix’s New York colocation provider can now connect directly with AWS for New York customers. Equinix announced this capability on Thursday. It leverages AWS Direct Connect service, which allows users to set up dedicated network connections between their on-premises environments and the AWS cloud.
Equinix customers can now connect to AWS from the New York campus of the company’s datacenter campus. This campus serves over 800 businesses in the financial services sector.
“Companies that have latency-sensitive workloads and applications, and especially financial services firms, require predicable performance to ensure consistent, high-quality users experiences,” Kaushik Joshi (global managing director of strategic alliances at Equinix), said in a prepared statement. Combining AWS Direct Connect with Equinix’s interconnection platform is a great combination that allows these customers to create hybrid cloud architectures and achieve this level performance and security.
Equinix also offers direct AWS connections to 16 other locations around the world, including New York.
