Most cost effective and reliable Azure to AWS connectivity

Gerhard De Villiers-Mohr 0

What would be the most cost-effective connection to setup between Azure and AWS. We will be generating a lot of traffic between the two clouds.

We don't have express connect.

Questions regarding express connect.

If only connecting Azure to AWS do we still need an Express connect provider.

Your recommendations will be appreciated.

GitaraniSharma-MSFT 47,686 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-01-25T17:35:16.4266667+00:00

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2023-01-31T07:45:33.9266667+00:00

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GitaraniSharma-MSFT 47,686 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-01-24T17:07:31.7833333+00:00

Hello @Gerhard De Villiers-Mohr ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & hope you are doing well.

I understand that you would like to know the most cost-effective and reliable way to setup a connection between Azure and AWS.

You can setup a Site-to-Site VPN connection between Azure and AWS using Azure VPN gateway and AWS virtual private gateway.

Refer the below documents on how to achieve the same:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-howto-aws-bgp

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/fasttrack-for-azure/how-to-create-a-vpn-between-azure-and-aws-using-only-managed/ba-p/2281900

To answer your below question:

If only connecting Azure to AWS, do we still need an Express connect provider?

I believe you are referring to Azure ExpressRoute (and not Express Connect).

Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/expressroute-introduction

Express Route is not needed when connecting Azure to AWS.

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Gerhard De Villiers-Mohr 0 Reputation points

2023-01-24T19:45:45.4666667+00:00

Thank you, GitaraniSharma-MSFT

I was trying to avoid the site-to-site route because of latency and so on. I was looking for a more robust solution. That is why I mentioned Express route. But the $50,000 price tag is making this unattractive.

GitaraniSharma-MSFT 47,686 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-01-25T06:06:21.3+00:00

Gerhard De Villiers-Mohr ,

The only ways to connect Azure to other cloud providers are: ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site VPN.

You can find the same in our guidance document which discuss the ways to connect an Azure landing zone architecture to other cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/connectivity-to-other-providers

Since your ask was about the most cost-effective way, I suggested Site-to-Site VPN because like you mentioned ExpressRoute can be a bit expensive.

However, if you need low latency & high throughput with SLAs and want to avoid connection over Internet, then ExpressRoute is the only option.

Azure ExpressRoute circuits have a wide range of bandwidths to choose from & flexible billing models.

ExpressRoute has an Unlimited data plan where billing is based on a monthly fee; all inbound and outbound data transfer is included free of charge and for a 50 Mbps circuit bandwidth, the Standard circuit price per month is $300 and Premium circuit price per month is $375.

Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/expressroute-introduction#bandwidth-options https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/expressroute/

NOTE: $50,000 pricing is for higher bandwidth options such as 10 Gbps or ExpressRoute Direct 100 Gbps port pair.

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

Regards, Gita

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2023-01-27T19:45:19.48+00:00

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msrini-MSFT 9,261 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-01-25T01:53:36.06+00:00

Hi, There are 2 options that are currently available where you can establish private connectivity between Azure and AWS. One is Express Route which is better but it comes with the cost and second is VPN. You can either go with Azure VPN gateway or any NVA available in marketplace to form a tunnel between Azure and AWS
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