AWS Direct Connect Alternatives (September 2025)

AWS Transit Gateway connects virtual private cloud and on-premises networks through a central hub. It acts as a highly scalable cloud router so you can easily add to your network.

AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications securely on AWS.

AWS VPN establishes encrypted connections for hybrid connectivity networks with AWS Site-to-Site VPN and remote workforce access with AWS Client VPN.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.

AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network—connecting your cloud and on-premises resources.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that make it possible to run low latency applications closer to end users or on-premises installations in a specific geography.

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that simplifies traffic management and improves performance by up to 60%.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a high-quality live video transport service that delivers video more efficiently than satellite or fiber-optic connections.

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport service that uses secure devices to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. Snowball addresses challenges like high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns to migrate data as efficiently as possible.

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AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

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AWS IoT Core enables secure two-way communication between internet-connected devices and AWS services with device gateway and device SDK capabilities.

The IOS XE based Cisco® Catalyst® 8000V Edge Software (Catalyst 8000V) sets the standard for virtual network services with maximum SDWAN & IPSec performance in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, bringing the world's most popular networking platform to AWS.

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

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Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

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Aviatrix secure cloud networking software is purpose-built for your business, delivering enterprise-grade networking with security, agility, and cost-optimization in mind.

AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources. This increases your application availability because your web service always discover the most up-to-date locations of its resources.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

AWS CloudHSM provides total access management control and protection for your encryption keys with secure and compliant hardware security modules (HSMs).

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service provider that allows developers to send email from within any application.

Fully managed Windows file system for business applications.

Megaport offers scalable bandwidth for public and private cloud connections, metro ethernet, Data Centre backhaul, and Internet Exchange Services.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a highly resilient, secure cloud service that provides database discovery, schema conversion, data migration, and ongoing replication to and from a wide range of databases and analytics systems.

Use Amazon VPC Lattice to securely connect your applications and services by defining policies for network access, traffic management, and monitoring.

CoreSite provides the foundation for your hybrid IT infrastructure with high-performance colocation, interconnected data center campuses and cloud onramps.

F5 Distributed Cloud Network Connect is a SaaS-based platform that enables seamless and secure connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS

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Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service. Enables to customize DNS routing policies to reduce latency.

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open-source software development framework used to model and provision your cloud application resources with familiar programming languages.

AWS Service Catalog helps you create and manage IaC templates approved for use on AWS so anyone can discover approved, self-service cloud resources.

Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed game backend service that manages and scales your cloud infrastructure.

AWS CodeCommit is a managed source control repository that makes it easier for teams to securely collaborate on code with contributions encrypted in transit and at rest.

Amazon MemoryDB is a Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

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Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs).

Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for resources on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources.

AWS Graviton processors deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads, optimized for a range of general-purpose, compute, memory, and storage-intensive workloads.

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

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AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that allows you to test iOS, Android, and web applications on real smartphones, tablets and desktop web browsers.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and define how to scale Amazon EC2 capacity to meet the demands of your application.

AWS IoT Greengrass is an open-source edge runtime and cloud service that helps you build, deploy, and manage intelligent device software.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

AWS IoT lets you securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that drive greater business value.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

Use AWS Certificate Manager to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and internal connected resources.

Amazon API Gateway helps you build HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs with a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, manage, monitor, and secure APIs.

AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners more securely analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) isolates cloud resources with virtual private networks.

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), IT managers, and product owners.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service for running code without having to provision or manage servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organizations.

Amazon SWF is a cloud process flow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

High-bandwidth dedicated servers with 10 Gbps - 80GE uplinks. Multihomed network design with Tier 1 transit providers in 53 locations worldwide.

Use Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) to build with Scalable Blockchain Network at scale without any specialized infrastructure investment.

Enjoy fast, private cloud connections—including MPLS VPN connections—between Azure and on-premises datacenters with Azure ExpressRoute.

AWS Transfer Family enables fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS and FTP to move large amounts of data into AWS.

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The broadest selection of relational and NoSQL purpose-built databases, fully managed, high performance, and ready to scale.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and packaging service that securely and reliably delivers streaming content at scale.

AWS Control Tower provides a single location to set up a well-architected, multi-account environment to govern your AWS workloads with rules for security, operations, and compliance.

Amazon SimpleDB is a simple database storage solution that allows developers to simply store & query data items via web services requests, saving time.

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AWS Well-Architected Tool is a service in the cloud that provides a consistent process for measuring your architecture using AWS best practices.

IBM API Connect is software to rapidly create, secure and manage APIs. IBM API Connect can be deployed in any Red Hat OpenShift environment. It’s also available as SaaS in a shared or dedicated instance, and as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

Amazon GameLift provides reliable and scalable game server hosting to easily deploy and manage game servers while focusing on creating engaging gameplay.

Cloud NGFW combines best-in-class network security with cloud native ease of use and delivers ML-Powered NGFW protection as a managed cloud native service on AWS.

IBM App Connect is application integration software that connects applications and data sources. It features a no-code interface with hundreds of prebuilt connectors, plus the ability to create custom connectors. It can be deployed on-premises, on any cloud, or as a fully managed service on AWS.

MFT Gateway offers AS2 Connection as a Service for B2B EDI/file transfer, providing cloud-based solutions for exchanging business documents with trading partners.

Confluent makes it easy to connect your apps, data systems, and entire business with secure, scalable, fully managed Kafka and real-time data streaming, processing, and analytics.

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Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

Make your daily struggle with B2B/EDI ( Electronic Data Interchange ) resources history. Streamline your operations, easily connect with partners, and overcome digitization challenges.

Advanced URL Filtering provides best-in-class security, including the industry’s first real-time web protection engine and comprehensive phishing protection.

Virtual Private Cloud helps you build an isolated network environment based on Alibaba Cloud including customizing the IP address range, network segment, route table, and gateway.

AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management service that automates best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and supports automated remediation.