[AusNOG] AWS DirectConnect billing

[Rhys Hanrahan]

Hi Guys,

I have a customer who might be interested in a DirectConnect private VIF. I have talked to an AWS partner about their costs (Port + Virtual Circuit cost) but I’m a bit fuzzy on how the billing works on the AWS side (i.e. who gets billed us or them?). Can anyone confirm if I have this breakdown right? I’ve looked at doing a public VIF ourselves in the past but unclear on the private VIFs.

Also – I am looking to push DirectConnect as a more reliable solution because the existing IPSec tunnel keeps droping out (I assume DirectConnect is a private VLAN so is it considered acceptable to not encrypt the BGP session generally?). If anyone has any anecdotes that confirm DirectConnect being more reliable/performing better/lower latency, that would be much appreciated! I’d love to be able to solidly say that Direct Connect will be a better experience.

My understanding, based on: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/pricing/ and https://docs.megaport.com/cloud/megaport/aws/hosted-vif/

  *   We pay a partner for a port
  *   We pay a partner for a VXC connection that links to a particular AWS account (I assume this links to the end customer’s AWS account – not ours?)
  *   The VXC gets handed off to us as a VLAN on our side that we can then hand off to a CPE, and shows as a private VIF on customer’s AWS account.
Then:

  *   The end customer pays the hosted connection “port” rate on their AWS account (so we don’t get charged this?)
  *   The end customer pays the data transfer outbound pricing per GB on their account (so we don’t get charged this?)
  *   The VIF gets linked to the customer’s Virtual Private Gateway and we can setup a BGP session between the two endpoints.

So if I am understanding right, we don’t even really need an AWS account ourselves to deliver this service via a partner? Unfortunately getting firm answers on the AWS side of things from the partner has been tricky. Appreciate any guidance – if anyone knows Megaport or IX Australia’s pricing for this kind of thing that would be great too as I’m looking at my options.

Thanks everyone! Happy Friday.

Rhys Hanrahan | Chief Information Officer
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