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Building upon its existing collaboration to offer private and secure connectivity with AWS Direct Connect, the company is participating in the launch of the new AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Program.

Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) revealed it is strengthening its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer enhanced cloud connectivity.

The company highlighted that the collaboration is to help enterprises accelerate their journey to AWS via a private cloud network onramp.

To support hybrid workloads, the availability of new 1G, 2G, 5G and 10G capacities allows Equinix customers using ECX Fabric to connect to a range of AWS services via AWS Direct Connect locations in the same metro where the customer’s infrastructure is located.

The company revealed that the need to deploy hybrid cloud architecture by connecting to cloud service providers, such as AWS, is becoming increasingly important for global enterprises as digital transformation fuels the need for on-demand access to cloud-based services.

Equinix is a long-time AWS Direct Connect provider, supporting both Dedicated Connections and Hosted Connections in Equinix IBX data centres globally.

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“Companies with latency-sensitive applications and workloads require predictable performance to ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience,” said Kaushik Joshi, Global Managing Director, Strategic Alliances, Equinix.

“AWS Direct Connect combined with ECX Fabric on the Equinix global interconnection platform is an ideal combination that allows these customers to deploy hybrid cloud architectures and achieve this level of performance and security.

“By offering Dedicated Connections, and Hosted Connections with new 1G up to 10G speeds on ECX Fabric, we are enhancing private cloud connectivity for enterprises to help them accelerate their hybrid cloud transformations.”

AWS Direct Connect is available to customers via ECX Fabric in 27 strategic markets, including Amsterdam, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Manchester, Miami, Munich, New York, Osaka, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw and Washington, D.C.

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