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Designing private network connectivity between AWS and Microsoft Azure

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This article discusses strategies for designing private network connectivity between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. It covers three main patterns:

  • AWS Site-to-Site VPN over the public internet, with benefits like encryption and up to 1.25Gbps bandwidth, but limitations like relying on public internet and potential compliance issues.
  • AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute in customer-managed infrastructure, with benefits like private connectivity, predictable latency, and up to 100Gbps bandwidth, but requiring management of routing configurations.
  • AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute hosted by a multicloud connectivity provider, with similar benefits to the second pattern, but with routing managed by the provider.

For each pattern, the article provides architectural diagrams and discusses multi-VPC and single-VPC approaches. It also covers prerequisites, benefits, limitations, and key components involved in setting up the connectivity.



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