AWS Now Available At EdgeConneX® Portland Edge Data Center®
New Amazon Web Services Direct Connect location extends cloud access to the edge.
EdgeConneX® has announced the availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect in its Portland Edge Data Center®. With AWS Direct Connect, companies in the Pacific Northwest can connect their IT infrastructure directly to Amazon Web Services, establishing a private connection to the cloud that can reduce costs, increase performance and provide a more consistent network experience. The announcement marks the first metro offering for AWS Direct Connect in Portland and the first AWS deployment for EdgeConneX.
The idea of bringing content, the cloud and applications closer to end-users is one that has been predicted by many industry experts. Specifically, in a report titled "The Edge Manifesto: Digital Business, Rich Media, Latency Sensitivity and the Use of Distributed Data Centers" (July 2015), Gartner analyst Bob Gill states, "We've begun the move to digital business, including rich content via mobile devices, where people, their devices and even unattended "things" become actors in transactions." Gill further predicts, "To optimize the experience, Gartner believes the topology of networked data centers will push over the next five years from a centralized, mega data center approach, to one augmented by multiple, smaller, distributed sources and sinks of content and information, whether located in distributed, enterprise-owned data centers, hosting providers, colocation or the cloud."