Category: Technical guides

DE-CIX’s DirectCLOUD service provides private access to cloud service providers just via a VLAN.

In order to help our customers to get the most out of our services, we assists certified partners, amongst others, with technical guidebooks for the most important clouds.

This  guide provides an overview of the functionalities and benefits of the Microsoft Cloud Services (Azure, Office 365, Dynamics 365). It is intended to introduce carriers and Internet service providers to the relevant services, and it translates terminology, technical configurations, setup for redundancy, as well as the business models, ordering workflows, and processes involved with connecting customers to Azure.

DE-CIX’s Cloud Exchange service DirectCLOUD provides private access to cloud service providers like AWS just via a VLAN. In order to help our customers to get the most out of our services, we assists certified partners, amongst others, with technical guidebooks for the most important clouds.

This guide provides an overview of the benefits of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and introduces the relevant services that make up the platform. It serves as a quick product guide and informative booklet for directly connecting to AWS via DE-CIX’s DirectCLOUD service, helping you to understand what AWS can offer your business and the technical and commercial integration possible for creating your own product offerings.

In the guide you will learn about:

• terminology
• technical configurations
• setup for backup and redundancy
• business model, ordering workflows
• processes involved with connecting customer to AWS

The guide can also be useful in communicating the setup and benefits of connecting to AWS directly to end-customers who wish to understand more granular details of your own solutions.

To download the guide, fill in the form.

The DE-CIX DirectCLOUD service provides private, direct, and secure access to cloud service providers, including Microsoft Azure. Access with DirectCLOUD guarantees more reliability, faster speeds, and lower latencies than typical Internet connections.

Our white paper gives you step-by-step instructions on how to configure both private peering and Microsoft peering for an ExpressRoute circuit, to help you set up connectivity with optimal routing from your premises to Microsoft Azure via DirectCLOUD.

Take advantage of a direct access to the Microsoft cloud

Download the white paper to learn about:

• Microsoft Azure ExpressROUTE
• The difference between private peering and Microsoft peering
• Sample network setup and how to set up connectivity

Our step by step guide will help you to set up your connectivity to Microsoft Azure via our DirectCLOUD service and take advantage of a private, secure, and direct access to the cloud.

To download the white paper, please fill in the form.

In this technical white paper, we explain what the Microsoft Azure Peering service is all about, how it is used, and what the differences to other setups and paths to Microsoft’s infrastructure are. You will learn about the benefits of using the service and we also explain the general set-up and specific details for DE-CIX Frankfurt.

This paper is aimed at technically-focused people and engineers who want to understand how the Azure Peering Service works and how to set it up. It contains specific details about the:

• provisioning process
• basic configuration
• prefix acceptance
• routes – both outbound and inbound

The white paper was written by Bernd Spiess from DE-CIX, and co-authored by Gerald Buchholz from Microsoft.

To download the white paper, please fill in the form.