Overview
What is IBM Cloud Direct Link?
The IBM Cloud Direct Link solution is designed to seamlessly connect your on-premises resources to your cloud resources. The speed and reliability of IBM Cloud Direct Link helps enable you to extend your organization’s data center network and provides consistent, higher-throughput connectivity—without touching the public internet. Direct Link is for private cloud. Enterprise customers want secure private connectivity.
IBM Cloud Direct Link provides fast, secure and reliable performance for hybrid workloads (02:10)
How customers use it
Extend and connect resources
Extend and connect resources
Use IBM Cloud Direct Link to connect and extend resource capacity to your existing on-premises data centers.
Store backup and recover
Store backup and recover
IBM Cloud Direct Link is ideal for data migration, replication for business continuity and disaster recovery, and to back up or store data from your data center to IBM Cloud.
Connect to other cloud provider
Connect to other cloud provider
Use IBM Cloud Direct Link connections from the IBM Cloud directly to a service provider-managed WAN or a client-managed cloud backbone to facilitate multicloud connectivity.
Connect to transit gateway resources
Connect to transit gateway resources
Connect to a transit gateway resource to enable an on-premises network’s ability to access all networks connected to the transit gateway. To avoid IP conflicts when configuring a solution, review the planning documents.
IBM Cloud Direct Link product options
IBM Cloud® Direct Link Dedicated
Single-tenant solution for maximum throughput. Optimal for large or frequent data transfers.
IBM Cloud® Direct Link Dedicated Hosting on Classic
Collocation adjacent to IBM Cloud Data Center with direct link connectivity.
Locations
IBM Cloud Direct Link Connect
IBM Cloud Direct Link Dedicated
IBM Cloud Direct Link - Dedicated Hosting on Classic
Benefits
Why IBM Cloud Direct Link
Get private and high-speed connectivity
Whether your resources are in your data center or on the IBM Cloud, operate with the speed and security that your business requires. By using Direct Link, network traffic remains on the secure and compliant IBM Cloud network.
Access IBM Cloud services
You can directly connect to IBM Cloud services to extend your on-premises network to IBM Cloud. For example, you can connect to VPCs or connect your direct links to other local or remote transit gateways.
Gain scalable connection capacity
With options from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps, get the right amount of bandwidth to your organization. Easily provision more connections as capacity is needed.
Take advantage of our global reach
IBM Cloud Direct Link global routing capabilities provide connectivity to regions around the globe from a single IBM Cloud Direct Link connection.
Achieve consistent network performance
See fewer network disruptions and connectivity drops, as traffic between your on-premises and IBM Cloud networks never touches the public internet.
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IBM Cloud Direct Link partners
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Get a highly secure, fast and private connection to IBM Cloud for interconnected workloads.