Connecting to Salesforce Hyperforce by using AWS Direct Connect with Megaport

Bennett Borofka and Kranthi Pullagurla (AWS), Abhiram Gajjala (Salesforce), Kevin Dresser (Megaport)

August 2024 (document history)

Many AWS users have hybrid workloads that span the cloud and on-premises locations. To adequately provide private, reliable network connectivity between these environments, you can choose from a variety of options to ensure business value and cost optimization. Users who have branch offices, enterprise data centers, and a VPN-connected workforce have unique requirements for enabling access to Salesforce Hyperforce running on AWS. This guide describes use cases to help Salesforce Hyperforce and AWS users configure private, reliable connectivity to Hyperforce by using AWS Direct Connect and the Megaport software-defined networking (SDN) platform.

Salesforce Hyperforce is a next-generation Salesforce infrastructure architecture that is built to run on cloud providers such as AWS. You can use Hyperforce to benefit from its enhanced compliance, security, agility, scalability, and privacy. Hyperforce provides multiple options for establishing private, reliable network connectivity to Hyperforce from your on-premises location, other AWS accounts, or other cloud providers.

AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service that bypasses the internet to link branch offices and data centers to AWS. It offers the shortest path from your location to Hyperforce, where network traffic remains on the AWS backbone network and never traverses the public internet.

Megaport is an SDN platform and AWS Direct Connect partner. Megaport provides a variety of network connectivity options for users who want fast, reliable connectivity to AWS and other cloud providers.

This guide is for practitioners, architects, administrators, and operators of networking, cloud infrastructure, and Salesforce Hyperforce.