Digital Realty Trust, Inc. announced that a new AWS Direct Connect on-ramp region is available at the company's Ashburn Campus which will enable its customers to access to AWS services via a single cross connect. The company's customers located on its Ashburn Campus will be able to connect their private infrastructure to the AWS US East (Northern Virginia) Region, allowing the optimization of hybrid architecture solutions. Enterprise customers will benefit from low-latency, high-performance, secure, and cost-efficient connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

With the addition of the Ashburn Campus, PlatformDIGITAL® now hosts 16 AWS Direct Connect cloud on-ramps globally in Amsterdam, Ashburn, Atlanta, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Dublin, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Seattle, Stockholm, Vienna, and Zurich. Customers can interconnect directly in these locations, as well as leverage virtual access to every AWS Direct Connect location via Digital Realty's proprietary interconnection solution and orchestration solution ServiceFabric™ from almost 100 locations globally. The AWS Direct Connect cloud service is the shortest path to customers' AWS resources.

While in transit, customers' network traffic remains on the AWS global network and never touches the public internet. This reduces the chance of hitting bottlenecks or unexpected increases in latency. When creating a new connection, customers can choose a hosted connection provided by an AWS Direct Connect Delivery Partner or choose a dedicated connection from AWS—and deploy at over 100 AWS Direct Connect locations around the globe.

Digital Realty provides the physical meeting place where AWS customers and AWS Partners can establish direct connections to AWS, optimizing hybrid IT solutions.