Document history - Amazon Direct Connect
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Document history

The following table describes the releases for Amazon Direct Connect. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Create an association between Direct Connect gateway and an Amazon Network Manager core network

You can now create a Direct Connect gateway association directly between Direct Connect and an Amazon Cloud WAN core network.

November 25, 2024

Support for 400G

Updated topics to include support for 400G connections.

July 18, 2024

Added a SiteLink prefix limit

A prefix limit for SiteLink was added to the quotas and limits topic.

June 15, 2023

Support for SiteLink

You can create a private virtual interface that enables connectivity between two Direct Connect points of presence (PoPs) in the same Amazon Region.

December 1, 2021

Support MAC Security

You can use Amazon Direct Connect connections that support MACsec to encrypt your data from your corporate data center to the Amazon Direct Connect location.

March 31, 2021

Support for 100G

Updated topics to include support for 100G dedicated connections.

February 12, 2021

New location in Italy

Updated topic to include the addition of the new location in Italy.

January 22, 2021

New location in Israel

Updated topic to include the addition of the new location in Israel.

July 7, 2020

Resiliency Toolkit Failover Testing support

Use the Resiliency Toolkit Failover Testing feature to test the resiliency of your connections.

June 3, 2020

CloudWatch VIF metric support

You can monitor physical Amazon Direct Connect connections, and virtual interfaces, using CloudWatch.

May 11, 2020

Amazon Direct Connect Resiliency Toolkit

The Amazon Direct Connect Resiliency Toolkit provides a connection wizard with multiple resiliency models that helps you order dedicated connections to achieve your SLA objective.

October 7, 2019

Additional Region support for Support for Amazon Transit Gateway across accounts

Additional Region support for Amazon Transit Gateway across accounts.

September 30, 2019

Amazon Direct Connect support for Amazon Transit Gateway

You can use an Amazon Direct Connect gateway to connect your Amazon Direct Connect connection over a transit virtual interface to the VPCs or VPNs attached to your transit gateway. You associate a Direct Connect gateway with the transit gateway. Then, create a transit virtual interface for your Amazon Direct Connect connection to the Direct Connect gateway.

March 27, 2019

Jumbo frames support

You can send jumbo frames (9001 MTU) over Amazon Direct Connect.

October 11, 2018

Local preference BGP communities

You can use local preference BGP community tags to achieve load balancing and route preference for incoming traffic to your network.

February 6, 2018

Amazon Direct Connect gateway

You can use a Direct Connect gateway to connect your Amazon Direct Connect connection to VPCs in remote Regions.

November 1, 2017

Amazon CloudWatch metrics

You can view CloudWatch metrics for your Amazon Direct Connect connections.

June 29, 2017

Link aggregation groups

You can create a link aggregation group (LAG) to aggregate multiple Amazon Direct Connect connections.

February 13, 2017

IPv6 support

Your virtual interface can now support an IPv6 BGP peering session.

December 1, 2016

Tagging support

You can now tag your Amazon Direct Connect resources.

November 4, 2016

Self-service LOA-CFA

You can now download your Letter of Authorization and Connecting Facility Assignment (LOA-CFA) using the Amazon Direct Connect console or API.

June 22, 2016

New location in Silicon Valley

Updated topic to include the addition of the new Silicon Valley location in the US West (N. California) Region.

June 3, 2016

New location in Amsterdam

Updated topic to include the addition of the new Amsterdam location in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region.

May 19, 2016

New locations in Portland, Oregon, and Singapore

Updated topic to include the addition of the new Portland, Oregon, and Singapore locations in the US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions.

April 27, 2016

New location in Sao Paulo, Brasil

Updated topic to include the addition of the new Sao Paulo location in the South America (São Paulo) Region.

December 9, 2015

New locations in Dallas, London, Silicon Valley, and Mumbai

Updated topics to include the addition of the new locations in Dallas (US East (N. Virginia) Region), London (Europe (Ireland) Region), Silicon Valley (Amazon GovCloud (US-West) Region), and Mumbai (Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region).

November 27, 2015

New location in the China (Beijing) Region

Updated topics to include the addition of the new Beijing location in the China (Beijing) Region.

April 14, 2015

New Las Vegas location in the US West (Oregon) Region

Updated topics to include the addition of the new Amazon Direct Connect Las Vegas location in the US West (Oregon) Region.

November 10, 2014

New EU (Frankfurt) Region

Updated topics to include the addition of the new Amazon Direct Connect locations serving the EU (Frankfurt) Region.

October 23, 2014

New locations in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

Updated topics to include the addition of the new Amazon Direct Connect locations serving the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

July 14, 2014

Support for Amazon CloudTrail

Added a new topic to explain how you can use CloudTrail to log activity in Amazon Direct Connect.

April 4, 2014

Support for accessing remote Amazon Regions

Added a new topic to explain how you can access public resources in a remote Region.

December 19, 2013

Support for hosted connections

Updated topics to include support for hosted connections.

October 22, 2013

New location in the EU (Ireland) Region

Updated topics to include the addition of the new Amazon Direct Connect location serving the EU (Ireland) Region.

June 24, 2013

New Seattle location in the US West (Oregon) Region

Updated topics to include the addition of the new Amazon Direct Connect location in Seattle serving the US West (Oregon) Region.

May 8, 2013

Support for using IAM with Amazon Direct Connect

Added a topic about using Amazon Identity and Access Management with Amazon Direct Connect.

December 21, 2012

New Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

Updated topics to include the addition of the new Amazon Direct Connect location serving the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

December 14, 2012

New Amazon Direct Connect console, and the US East (N. Virginia) and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions

Replaced the Amazon Direct Connect Getting Started Guide with the Amazon Direct Connect User Guide. Added new topics to cover the new Amazon Direct Connect console, added a billing topic, added router configuration information, and updated topics to include the addition of two new Amazon Direct Connect locations serving the US East (N. Virginia) and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions.

August 13, 2012

Support for the EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions

Added a new troubleshooting section and updated topics to include the addition of four new Amazon Direct Connect locations serving the US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions.

January 10, 2012

Support for the US West (Northern California) Region

Updated topics to include the addition of the US West (Northern California) Region.

September 8, 2011

Public release

The first release of Amazon Direct Connect.

August 3, 2011