Digital Realty Publicizes Availability of AWS Direct Join 100G Devoted Connections on PlatformDIGITAL® in Seattle and Dublin

As companies adopt new technologies and solutions such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT on a massive scale, the explosive growth of digital business presents new challenges as data takes its own gravity, becomes heavier, denser, and more expensive. The new AWS Direct Connect 100 Gbit / s is tailored to enable easy access to larger data sets and enable high availability, reliability and lower latency. This will enable customers to seamlessly move bandwidth-intensive workloads – and break the barriers of data gravity. Customers gain access to a strategic IT infrastructure that can aggregate and manage data with less design time and effort, and provide access to AWS with one of the fastest, highest quality AWS network connections available.

As an AWS Outposts Ready Partner, Digital Realty’s global platform is optimized to support the needs of data-intensive, secure hybrid IT deployments. Digital Realty supports AWS Outposts deployments by providing access to more than 40 AWS Direct Connect locations worldwide to meet local processing, compliance, and storage needs while optimizing costs and performance. Combined with the availability of AWS Direct Connect 100 Gbps connections, the Westin Building Exchange and Interxion Dublin locations are ideal meeting places for customers to overcome the challenges of data gravity and to open up new possibilities with their AWS Outposts deployments.

“As emerging technologies like AI, VR and blockchain move from the edge to the mainstream, companies need a new level of performance in their hybrid solutions,” said Tom Sly, General Manager, AWS Direct Connect. “Deployment of AWS Direct Connect at 100 Gbps at Digital Realty facilities in Seattle and Dublin is critical to our strategy of helping customers develop more complex applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. We are excited to see the value Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL® brings to our mutual customers. ”

The Westin Building Exchange serves as the primary connection hub for the Pacific Northwest and connects Canada, Alaska and Asia along the Pacific Rim. The building is one of the most closely interconnected facilities in North America, and is home to leading global cloud, content and interconnection providers with over 150 carriers and more than 10,000 cross-connects, giving Amazon customers access to the largest companies and services in the digital economy with low latency. The 34-story tower is adjacent to Amazon’s existing 4.1 million square foot campus in Seattle.

Digital Realty offers six colocation data centers in the Irish capital that provide a strategic bridge between Europe and the USA Ireland is of particular importance as a global trading center and is the headquarters of several global multinational companies in the software, finance and life science industries. Several transatlantic cables also land in Ireland before traveling to the UK or continental Europemaking Interxion Dublin a prime location for the new AWS Direct Connect 100 Gbps at the heart of a dynamic networked data community.

“Today’s announcement of the launch of AWS Direct Connect 100 Gbps On-Ramps greatly expands the ability for customers to scale their digital transformation through our global DIGITAL® platform,” added Digital Realty Chief Technology Officer Chris Sharp. “AWS serves some of the world’s most innovative and demanding customers, from startups to companies looking to drive the digital economy. Our platform expands the next generation coverage, capacity and connectivity that AWS customers need to grow their workloads. ”We are honored to be working with AWS and specifically at the heart of the rich digital communities at the Westin Building Exchange and on to open up next-generation access to our Interxion campus in Dublin. ”

The new deployments create centers for the exchange of data in network hubs, which are provided on PlatformDIGITAL®, whereby distributed workflows can be quickly scaled and securely connected – whereby operating costs are reduced, transparency is improved, time is saved and compliance is improved. The new feature also gives AWS customers instant access to a growing list of powerful AWS services like blockchain, machine learning, IoT and countless others – all over a direct, private connection that is optimized for high performance and security.

AIB, Inc., a leading data exchange and management company with a software-as-a-service platform used by over 1,600 automotive customers, has the value of providing a physical network hub on PlatformDIGITAL® in conjunction with a virtual direct connection to AWS to enable flexibility in its hybrid IT environment.

“Our Texas operation required new cloud zone diversity solutions for our cloud-native national vision. Digital Realty has provided an innovative and comprehensive solution for AWS cloud access through PlatformDIGITAL®, ”said Ladles Dunham, CTO AI.IB, Inc.

Digital Realty’s global platform enables low latency access to both the nearest AWS Region and a wide range of options for connecting edge deployments or devices. Customers can securely connect to their desired AWS region using physical and virtual connectivity options. PlatformDIGITAL® provides access to more than 40 AWS Direct Connect locations worldwide, including 11 in EMEA, and provides secure, high-performance access to numerous AWS Outposts-Ready data centers around the world. In addition, the Digital Realty Internet Exchange (DRIX) supports AWS direct peering functions and dedicated access to multiple third-party Internet exchanges on PlatformDIGITAL®, providing a direct path from local networks to AWS. The solution is part of the robust and growing partner community of PlatformDIGITAL®, which solves hybrid IT challenges for companies.

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Digital Realty supports the world’s leading companies and service providers by providing the full spectrum of data center, colocation and connection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a trusted foundation and proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx ™) solution methodology for scaling digital business and efficiently addressing data gravity challenges. Digital Realty’s global data center presence gives customers access to the networked communities that matter to them with 290 facilities in 47 metropolises in 24 countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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