Question

A company has a single 10 Gbps dedicated Direct Connect connection at an AWS Direct Connect location, terminating on one physical port. Traffic to AWS has grown, and the network team wants to increase available bandwidth to 20 Gbps while presenting the connection to their router as a single logical interface for simpler management. They also want the ability to add more connections later without reconfiguring VIFs. Which approach meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Create a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) using LACP, bundle two 10 Gbps dedicated connections at the same Direct Connect location, and migrate the existing VIFs onto the LAG.

Answer

Provision a second 10 Gbps dedicated connection and configure ECMP across the two connections by advertising the same prefixes over separate BGP sessions on each private VIF.

Answer

Request a hosted connection from a Direct Connect partner and rely on the partner's edge to aggregate bandwidth automatically.

Answer

Enable jumbo frames (9001 MTU) on the existing 10 Gbps connection to effectively double usable throughput.