AWS Direct Connect Establishes a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your Data Centers, office, or colocation environment, using MPLS or dedicated leased lines avoiding the Internet route. Speaker: Manoj Paul, MD, GPX Global Systems

1. Data Bulk Upload
using
AWS Direct Connect
@
GPX Tier IV DC
GPX Global Systems
GPX India Private Limited, 001, Boomerang, Chandivali Farm Road, Andheri East, Mumbai – 400072
www.gpxglobal.net

2. GPX DC Location in Mumbai
GPX Global Systems
• Asia’s first and India’s only Uptime Institute design certified Tier IV DC service provider offering 99.999% uptime
SLA
• India’s most “Carrier Content Cloud” rich Data Center with an ecosystem comprised of Carriers (~ 12 Telecom
Service Providers), ISP’s(25+), content service providers, hosting companies, and cloud service providers
• India’s first AWS Direct Connect PoP @ GPX DC and only one with Singapore and India region connectivity
• Awarded “State of Art Data Center” by Economic times

3. GPX : Multiple options for connectivity
•True Carrier Neutral Data Center service provider
• Multiple options for bandwidth @ GPX for DirectConnect connectivity
•You can use your existing bandwidth service provider for Direct Connect
 Bharti Airtel
 Tata Communications
 Reliance Communications
 Vodafone India Limited
 Tata Tele Services Limited
 Sify Technologies Ltd
 Reliance Jio
 MTNL/ BSNL
 RailTel Corporation of India
 Power Grid Corporation
 Reliance Jio
 Microscan
• Telco Infrastructure @ GPX DC for multiple 10/100 Gig bandwidth
• Diverse paths for fiber and four entry points to the building assuring network resiliency
Plus Over 50 ISPs

4. Revisiting : What is AWS Direct
ConnectAWS Direct Connect establishes a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct
Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation
environment, using MPLS or dedicated leased lines avoiding the internet route
Customer premises or DCAWS Cloud
Virtual Private Cloud
100mbps
1 Gb/s
10 Gb/s
SESAmazon
Glacier
Elastic
Beanstalk
SQS
Amazon
EMR
Amazon
Redshift
EC2
AWS Direct
Connect @ GPX
Mumbai
Direct
Connect
MPLS
Leased Line

5. Direct Connect Advantages:
Direct Connect is a Dedicated, High-Capacity, Secure Link to
Amazon Web Services
Source: http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/
AWS customers who transfer large
amounts of data or who require high
performance should consider Direct
Connect

6. Customer IT infra colocated at GPX DC
Scenario – I . For GPX Colocation customers
Router A Router R
Cloud Uplink (A)
10GBASE-LR (1310nm)
10GBASE-LR (1310nm)
Legend:
A – Active
R - Redundant
1 G/100mbps/500mbps
Fiber/Copper links to
customer racks
Cloud Uplink (R)
10GBASE-LR (1310nm)
GPX Switch Fabric
AWS Router AWS Router
1 G/100mbps/500mbps Fiber
/ Copper links to customer
racks
GPX Cross connect
GPXDatacenter
AWS Network
Customer Racks

7. Benefits of Co-located IT infra at GPX
• Advantages of colocation at GPX for Direct Connect:
 Zero ISP bandwidth cost
 Elasticity : Connect over 1Gbps , flexibility for heavy upload/ downloads
 Cost effective redundant link to AWS cloud
 Higher security
• DR on cloud using Direct Connect
 Ideal for a DC _ DR set up:
 Host your servers in a Tier IV DC offering 99.999% uptime
 Connect to AWS over LAN: zero DC/DR bandwidth cost
 Pay only when AWS resources are used-ideal for DR

8. Scenario – II . For Customers outside GPX Data Center
Router A Router R
Cloud Uplink (A)
10GBASE-LR (1310nm)
10GBASE-LR (1310nm)
Legend:
A – Active
R - Redundant
1 G/100mbps/500mbps
Fiber/Copper point to point
links to customer premises
Cloud Uplink (R)
10GBASE-LR (1310nm)
GPX Switch
Fabric
AWS Router AWS Router
1 G/100mbps/500mbps
Fiber/Copper point to point
links to customer premises
Customer Data center
Carrier MUX Carrier MUX
PtoP / MPLS
Links from TSP
GPXDatacenter
GPX Switch Fabric
Customer IT infra NOT colocated at GPX DC

9. Customers not collocated at GPX
• Components:
1. AWS Direct Connect port - subscribe on AWS console
2. MPLS/Leased Line to GPX DC - provided by TSP
3. Cross Connect from TSP rack at carrier room to GPX Switch fabric or direct
cross connect to AWS router for 1gbps/10Gbps - provided
by GPX
• Constrains :
 Varying bandwidth requirement becomes difficult to implement
 Two MPLS/Leased line links needed for redundancy

10. Bulk Data Ingestion

11. • With launch of India region of AWS, many customers would
migrate from own set up to cloud
– One time requirement of uploading huge existing data
• Enterprises are setting up DR on cloud
– One time requirement of uploading bulk existing data
• Media companies
– infrequent bulk video file uploads
Objective: Need for bulk upload

12. • Internet: Time consuming- 100 TB data can take 100+ days over
100mbps link; Expensive
• Snowball: Generally used for very high volume ( Petabyte) data

13. Bulk Data Ingestion
Service at
GPX Data Center

14. • Pre configured set- up at GPX DC, enabling uploading of 10/100 Terra
bytes of data
 Cost effective
 Efficient
• Elastic solution for differed requirement :
 elastic bandwidth as bandwidth requirement would vary
 Variable Duration
• Space for keeping storage hardware and hooking it up to the cloud
Features :

15. System Architecture:

16. Deliverables:
Customer:
• Customer brings in storage hardware to GPX DC
GPX :
• Provide temporary dedicated rack compartment with power to place customer
hardware.
• Preconfigured cross connect using fibre port for 1G/10G or CAT6 FE port for
sub 1G cross connects
• For sub 1 gig, GPX will provision direct connect on AWS console
• Temporary workstation with power and cross connect for customer technician
Customer:
• Performs the data upload

18. Case Study
Migration of 10 TB data to AWS
for a
World’s leading Petrochem Company
Partner: Cloudxchange

19. Case Study Details
• Leading Petrochem Engineering company head quartered in France.
• They were looking for DR and archival as a service for their DC in Mumbai
Proposed Solution :
 DR as a Service for 8 servers with 15 TB data.
 Archival as a Service for 15 TB data stored on tapes and NAS storages
 Data ingestion service with direct connect

20. Proposed Solution Architecture
X86 File Servers
SAN/ LAN
Customer DC
AWS MUM DC
Old Data On Tapes and
Servers
GPX DC
Storage Appliance
for data movement

21. Data Injection Steps
• Storage appliance provided with 12 TB usable capacity.
• Data copied from multiple servers to storage appliance using
double take and robo copy.
• Storage appliance physically moved to GPX and connected to
direct connect port provided by GPX.
• Configured direct connect with 500 Mbps speed in AWS console.
• Migrated data to EBS using robo copy and FTP

22. Type of data migrated
• Autocad engineering drawings
• 3D images & videos for engineering applications.
• Videos
• Office files
 More than 60% data were engineering drawings and videos

23. Data Injection activity report
• Total data migrated = 10 TB
• Direct connect port speed configured : 500 Mbps
• Total time took to complete transfer : 92 hours
• Note : First 5 TB was transferred within 36 hours, remaining took some
time.
• Fully secured process with customer having full control over the
data