AWS Interconnect - last mile announces new metro in Northern Virginia, USA

Published
November 5, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/interconnect-last-mile-northern-virginia/

AWS Interconnect - Last Mile in Northern Virginia

AWS has introduced AWS Interconnect - last mile in Northern Virginia, USA, allowing you to connect your data center, branch office, or colocation facility to AWS. This service provides managed, private, and resilient connections to AWS without the need to order cross-connects or configure routers.

  • Key Features:
  • Managed, private, and resilient connections
  • Provisioned across two physically diverse locations with four redundant links
  • 99.99% availability SLA up to the Direct Connect port
  • Traffic encryption with MACsec by default

Lumen customers in the continental United States can order connections to reach all public AWS Regions (except those in China) and AWS Local Zones. AWS Interconnect - last mile is also available in preview through Megaport and Equinix in the Northern Virginia metro.

What to do

Source: AWS release notes




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