View your connection details

You can view the current status of your connection. You can also view your connection ID (for example, dxcon-12nikabc) and verify that it matches the connection ID on the LOA-CFA that you received or downloaded.

For information on monitoring connections, see Monitoring AWS Direct Connect resources.

Console

To view details about a connection

1. Open the AWS Direct Connect console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/v2/home.

2. In the left pane, choose Connections.

3. Select a connection, and then choose View details.

Command line

To describe a connection using the command line or API

• describe-connections (AWS CLI)

• DescribeConnections (AWS Direct Connect API)