CyrusOne has announced the company has joined Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN), offering connectivity to AWS Direct Connect across its full data center portfolio. By providing access to AWS Direct Connect, CyrusOne customers are able to link internal networks to an AWS Direct Connect location for greater efficiency, reliability, and productivity via private connections to the AWS Cloud.

"By offering AWS Direct Connect across all of our data center facilities, CyrusOne is yet again demonstrating its commitment to serving the increasingly diverse and expanding connectivity needs of our customers,” said Josh Snowhorn, vice president and general manager of Interconnection, CyrusOne. “We are excited to join the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, and look forward to the abundant opportunities that this relationship can bring to the future of CyrusOne’s growing portfolio of data center facilities globally.”

The AWS secure cloud services platform offers compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help business scale and grow. AWS Direct Connect provides an alternative to using the Internet to access AWS cloud services by establishing private network connections. By offering connectivity to AWS Direct Connect, CyrusOne is enabling customers to access all AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon DynamoDB, through fast, secure, and reliable connections.

 

This article was originally posted “CyrusOne Offers Connectivity To AWS Direct Connect Across Full Data Center Portfolio” from Cloud Strategy Magazine.