Function Overview

Direct Connect allows you to establish a stable, high-speed, low-latency, secure dedicated network connection that connects your on-premises data center to HUAWEI CLOUD. Direct Connect allows you to maximize legacy IT facilities and leverage cloud services to build a flexible, scalable hybrid cloud computing environment.

A standard connection provides a dedicated port for your exclusive use. You can create standard connections on the console and create multiple connections terminating at different locations as backups for each other to improve reliability. If, for some reason, there is only one carrier, you can create redundancy by configuring different routes for your connections.

If you use a hosted connection to access the cloud, the port you use is shared.

After the partner connects to your on-premises data center and HUAWEI CLOUD, the partner provisions a connection for you.

A virtual gateway is a logical gateway for accessing a VPC. A virtual gateway can only have one VPC associated. To access other VPCs, you can use VPC Peering or Cloud Connect to connect the VPC your on-premises data center is accessing to these VPCs.

A virtual gateway can only have one VPC associated. You can link multiple connections to one virtual gateway so that your on-premises data center can access the same VPC.

A virtual interface is what you use to link connections to virtual gateways. A virtual interface can link a connection to one or more virtual gateways so that your on-premises network can access the VPC associated with each virtual gateway.

Virtual interfaces support static routing and BGP routing. You can choose BGP routing if you want to build a hybrid cloud more efficiently and reliably.