Private connectivity to cloud providers
Once entering to user space of multi cloud consumer an important discussion is how to design and deploy the connectivity. Here lets explore two scenarios:
- On Prime to Cloud
- Cloud to Cloud
On Prime to Cloud
Here lets assume the most simple form to deploy an on prime to cloud connectivity based on partner model to best leverage the pre-build automation in place.
The choice of the connectivity provider can be strongly influenced by:
- Existing network deployment
- Active contracted operations or transporters
- Existing connectivity to cloud connectivity providers
- Check SDN services like virtual router some providers can have services availability by region.
Once proper defined the best provider for the scenario lets explore how the cloud provider can offer:
- Communication ports can vary from 1Gbps to 10Gbps. Here some providers can offer direct connections with higher speeds like 100Gbps.
- Plan communication egress and ingress. Network traffic can be changed in some cloud providers.
- Availability providers can also offer distinct capabilities for:
- Link failure detection
- Multipath
Cloud to Cloud
Just to better explain was used as bases Megaport for an simple reason clean and very simple. This vendor introduced one of the first cloud routers using this capability you can configure the connectivity against one virtual entity called virtual router a SDN virtual construct that will help you connect the MultiCloud scenario better more simple using virtual circuits per cloud vendor. Today others vendors also offered similar capabilities, check availability for your deployment.
