AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Manchester, England

AWS Direct Connect Expansion

AWS announced the expansion of 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections with MACsec encryption capabilities at the Equinix MA3 data center near Manchester, England. This enables private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

What to do

• Establish private, direct network access to AWS services from the new location.
• Visit the locations section for more information on Direct Connect locations.
• Check the getting started page for deployment instructions.

Source: AWS release notes

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