Document history
The following table describes the releases for AWS Direct Connect. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Support for long ASN | You can now use long ASN values for BGP sessions with AWS Direct Connect virtual interfaces. | July 24, 2025 |
Create an association between Direct Connect gateway and an AWS Network Manager core network | You can now create a Direct Connect gateway association directly between Direct Connect and an AWS Cloud WAN core network. | November 25, 2024 |
Support for 400G | Updated topics to include support for 400G connections. | July 18, 2024 |
Added a SiteLink prefix limit | A prefix limit for SiteLink was added to the quotas and limits topic. | June 15, 2023 |
Support for SiteLink | You can create a private virtual interface that enables connectivity between two Direct Connect points of presence (PoPs) in the same AWS Region. | December 1, 2021 |
Support MAC Security | You can use AWS Direct Connect connections that support MACsec to encrypt your data from your corporate data center to the AWS Direct Connect location. | March 31, 2021 |
Support for 100G | Updated topics to include support for 100G dedicated connections. | February 12, 2021 |
New location in Italy | Updated topic to include the addition of the new location in Italy. | January 22, 2021 |
New location in Israel | Updated topic to include the addition of the new location in Israel. | July 7, 2020 |
Resiliency Toolkit Failover Testing support | Use the Resiliency Toolkit Failover Testing feature to test the resiliency of your connections. | June 3, 2020 |
CloudWatch VIF metric support | You can monitor physical AWS Direct Connect connections, and virtual interfaces, using CloudWatch. | May 11, 2020 |
AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Toolkit | The AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Toolkit provides a connection wizard with multiple resiliency models that helps you order dedicated connections to achieve your SLA objective. | October 7, 2019 |
Additional Region support for Support for AWS Transit Gateway across accounts | Additional Region support for AWS Transit Gateway across accounts. | September 30, 2019 |
AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway | You can use an AWS Direct Connect gateway to connect your AWS Direct Connect connection over a transit virtual interface to the VPCs or VPNs attached to your transit gateway. You associate a Direct Connect gateway with the transit gateway. Then, create a transit virtual interface for your AWS Direct Connect connection to the Direct Connect gateway. | March 27, 2019 |
Jumbo frames support | You can send jumbo frames (9001 MTU) over AWS Direct Connect. | October 11, 2018 |
Local preference BGP communities | You can use local preference BGP community tags to achieve load balancing and route preference for incoming traffic to your network. | February 6, 2018 |
AWS Direct Connect gateway | You can use a Direct Connect gateway to connect your AWS Direct Connect connection to VPCs in remote Regions. | November 1, 2017 |
Amazon CloudWatch metrics | You can view CloudWatch metrics for your AWS Direct Connect connections. | June 29, 2017 |
Link aggregation groups | You can create a link aggregation group (LAG) to aggregate multiple AWS Direct Connect connections. | February 13, 2017 |
IPv6 support | Your virtual interface can now support an IPv6 BGP peering session. | December 1, 2016 |
Tagging support | You can now tag your AWS Direct Connect resources. | November 4, 2016 |
Self-service LOA-CFA | You can now download your Letter of Authorization and Connecting Facility Assignment (LOA-CFA) using the AWS Direct Connect console or API. | June 22, 2016 |
New location in Silicon Valley | Updated topic to include the addition of the new Silicon Valley location in the US West (N. California) Region. | June 3, 2016 |
New location in Amsterdam | Updated topic to include the addition of the new Amsterdam location in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region. | May 19, 2016 |
New locations in Portland, Oregon, and Singapore | Updated topic to include the addition of the new Portland, Oregon, and Singapore locations in the US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. | April 27, 2016 |
New location in Sao Paulo, Brasil | Updated topic to include the addition of the new Sao Paulo location in the South America (São Paulo) Region. | December 9, 2015 |
New locations in Dallas, London, Silicon Valley, and Mumbai | Updated topics to include the addition of the new locations in Dallas (US East (N. Virginia) Region), London (Europe (Ireland) Region), Silicon Valley (AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region), and Mumbai (Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region). | November 27, 2015 |
New location in the China (Beijing) Region | Updated topics to include the addition of the new Beijing location in the China (Beijing) Region. | April 14, 2015 |
New Las Vegas location in the US West (Oregon) Region | Updated topics to include the addition of the new AWS Direct Connect Las Vegas location in the US West (Oregon) Region. | November 10, 2014 |
New EU (Frankfurt) Region | Updated topics to include the addition of the new AWS Direct Connect locations serving the EU (Frankfurt) Region. | October 23, 2014 |
New locations in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region | Updated topics to include the addition of the new AWS Direct Connect locations serving the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. | July 14, 2014 |
Support for AWS CloudTrail | Added a new topic to explain how you can use CloudTrail to log activity in AWS Direct Connect. | April 4, 2014 |
Support for accessing remote AWS Regions | Added a new topic to explain how you can access public resources in a remote Region. | December 19, 2013 |
Support for hosted connections | Updated topics to include support for hosted connections. | October 22, 2013 |
New location in the EU (Ireland) Region | Updated topics to include the addition of the new AWS Direct Connect location serving the EU (Ireland) Region. | June 24, 2013 |
New Seattle location in the US West (Oregon) Region | Updated topics to include the addition of the new AWS Direct Connect location in Seattle serving the US West (Oregon) Region. | May 8, 2013 |
Support for using IAM with AWS Direct Connect | Added a topic about using AWS Identity and Access Management with AWS Direct Connect. | December 21, 2012 |
New Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region | Updated topics to include the addition of the new AWS Direct Connect location serving the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. | December 14, 2012 |
New AWS Direct Connect console, and the US East (N. Virginia) and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions | Replaced the AWS Direct Connect Getting Started Guide with the AWS Direct Connect User Guide. Added new topics to cover the new AWS Direct Connect console, added a billing topic, added router configuration information, and updated topics to include the addition of two new AWS Direct Connect locations serving the US East (N. Virginia) and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. | August 13, 2012 |
Support for the EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions | Added a new troubleshooting section and updated topics to include the addition of four new AWS Direct Connect locations serving the US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. | January 10, 2012 |
Support for the US West (Northern California) Region | Updated topics to include the addition of the US West (Northern California) Region. | September 8, 2011 |
Public release | The first release of AWS Direct Connect. | August 3, 2011 |
