Direct Connect and VLANs
We were troubleshooting a network configuration on using AWS Direct Connect and as it turns out that the VLAN can be different coming from the Customer Gateway to the Customer POP Router and Customer POP Router to Public/Private Virtual Interface (VIF).
Hosted Public VIFs and LOA for Public IP and ASN
Let’s say there are 2 companies. Each company has an AWS Account of their. Company A account owns the Direct Connect connection. They then created a Hosted Public Virtual Interface (VIF) to Company B account. Company B account will then accept the Hosted Public VIF from Company A account. Company B owns the public IP…
Public Virtual Interface (VIF) only advertising the AWS Prefixes on the same region
We have a Direct Connect (DX) connection in Mumbai Region and we need to access an S3 bucket or an EC2 Instance with Elastic IP in N. Virginia region. For this we will need to use Public Virtual Interface (VIF). When we setup the Public VIF and configured the router in the Corporate Data Center,…
AWS Direct Connect connection Status still ‘available’ when there is an issue with our On-Premise Router
When we were setting up a Direct Connect I was wondering why the Direct Connect connection has state of ‘available’ but the router in the Corporate Data Center was off.
AWS Direct Connect Virtual Network Interface BGP Status Delay
When we were troubleshooting an issue with the BGP status of a Private Virtual Interface (VIF), we encountered that the BGP status in the router was up and we are able to communicate with our resources in AWS while in the AWS console, it was still down. After some time, the BGP status of our…
Direct Connect AWS Price List API all Attribute Names and Values
Below is a reference for all attribute names and attribute values in AWS Price List API for AWS Direct Connect. Note: All the list below are in alphabetical order. Service Code: AWSDirectConnect Python Code to get Attribute Names for AWSDirectConnect using Boto3