AWS Site-to-Site VPN announces 5 Gbps bandwidth tunnels

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Bandwidth Update

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports VPN connections with up to 5 Gbps bandwidth per tunnel, a 4x improvement from the existing limit of 1.25 Gbps. This increased bandwidth benefits customers who require high-capacity connections for bandwidth-intensive hybrid applications, big data migrations, and disaster recovery architectures while maintaining traffic encryption between AWS and their remote sites. Customers can also use 5 Gbps VPN connections as a backup or overlay for their high capacity AWS Direct Connect connections.

What to do

• Review your current VPN configurations to determine if the new bandwidth limit will benefit your use case.
• Update your VPN tunnels to the new 5 Gbps bandwidth limit where applicable.
• Monitor performance and adjust configurations as needed to ensure optimal bandwidth utilization.

This capability is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where AWS Site-to-Site VPN is available, except Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Zurich), Canada West (Calgary), and Middle East (UAE) Regions.

Source: AWS release notes

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