Internet Solutions adds Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud services

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Internet Solutions adds Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud services

Internet Solutions (IS) has confirmed two new CloudConnect partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, which are offered as fully-managed connectivity services.

These partnerships make IS the only ISP in South Africa to offer dedicated links to three of the world’s largest public cloud platforms.
 
So the only thing I could think about while reading this was... Does this mean we can get local Fortnite servers now?
 
How would this affect me?
I have an AWS S3 bucked and t2 instance hosted in EU (Ireland) Region eu-west-1
 
ArtyLoop said:
Shame.. IS trying to stay relevant...
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It has nothing to do about staying relevant, it about providing local support. Amazon (AWS) and Google have been pushing this onto many shores now. Besides POPI is coming in soon, and once it is promulgated those who are chasing the one year will be behind, and I’m not talking about the end-user here. Kudos.
 
Thor said:
How would this affect me?
I have an AWS S3 bucked and t2 instance hosted in EU (Ireland) Region eu-west-1
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It doesn't really.. If this is on offer to ISPs who use IS as it's backbone and you are using one of those ISPs as your provider you MAY see some improvement in latency, but nothing to write home about..
 
WAslayer said:
It doesn't really.. If this is on offer to ISPs who use IS as it's backbone and you are using one of those ISPs as your provider you MAY see some improvement in latency, but nothing to write home about..
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Ahh okay I also happen to have IS ignite fiber so it's a little plus for me.
 
If you sign up for CloudConnect, you get a managed router on site from them, dedicated bandwidth into Azure/AWS/Google, BGP routing setup between their managed router and your own router/firewall or wherever you want to plug that router in as long as you can setup BGP between them, does not go over your normal internet link at all.

Costs, dear lord it's kinda expensive, starts at about R14 000 for 50Mb and almost R200 000 a month for 1Gb... not sure what the x-connect 10Gb link costs...
 
irBosOtter said:
If you sign up for CloudConnect, you get a managed router on site from them, dedicated bandwidth into Azure/AWS/Google, BGP routing setup between their managed router and your own router/firewall or wherever you want to plug that router in as long as you can setup BGP between them, does not go over your normal internet link at all.

Costs, dear lord it's kinda expensive, starts at about R14 000 for 50Mb and almost R200 000 a month for 1Gb... not sure what the x-connect 10Gb link costs...
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So ideal for storage if you don't want to use S3 and Glacier

Or what else is the practical benifits of this?
 
Thor said:
So ideal for storage if you don't want to use S3 and Glacier

Or what else is the practical benifits of this?
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The dedicated connection between your location locally and AWS.. You are not sharing this traffic with any other internet users..
 
Thor said:
So ideal for storage if you don't want to use S3 and Glacier

Or what else is the practical benifits of this?
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Supposedly faster response times, and dedicated bandwidth into the cloud, for anything really, Sharepoint, Exchange, file services or whatever you want to host.

We moved Sharepoint to Azure, currently sitting in Amsterdam, will move 20Tb+ file share to Azure once it's in SA
 
Liam_Selby said:
Internet Solutions adds Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud services

Internet Solutions (IS) has confirmed two new CloudConnect partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, which are offered as fully-managed connectivity services.

These partnerships make IS the only ISP in South Africa to offer dedicated links to three of the world’s largest public cloud platforms.
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AWS, Microsoft and Google have been available in SA through Aryaka for three years now, and to three continents.
Don't really see the benefit of these Cloud networks unless you are using their IaaS in SA. Aryaka network is fully embedded with application optimization which is a hell of a lot faster.... And uses a lot less bandwidth....
 
Stuartacc said:
AWS, Microsoft and Google have been available in SA through Aryaka for three years now, and to three continents.
Don't really see the benefit of these Cloud networks unless you are using their IaaS in SA. Aryaka network is fully embedded with application optimization which is a hell of a lot faster.... And uses a lot less bandwidth....
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Can easily build your own with SD-WAN and adding riverbed devices on both sides.
I have switched off 30 of our WAN optimization devices cause everything is moving secure and can't cache/accelerate that stuff easily, but works wonders for file shares, unsecured traffic and database traffic (98% reduction in DB traffic)
 
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irBosOtter said:
Can easily build your own with SD-WAN and adding riverbed devices on both sides.
I have switched off 30 of our WAN optimization devices cause everything is moving secure and can't cache/accelerate that stuff easily, but works wonders for file shares, unsecured traffic and database traffic (98% reduction in DB traffic)
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You can dedup and compress if you share a trusted certificate with Aryaka or Visa versa. But 70% of the performance benefit comes from TCP acceleration and application proxies built into all SaaS services.
Riverbed with Express route only addresses Microsoft which is limiting and does almost nothing for 0365. But try it out and decide for yourself...
 
Still not incountry.

Govinder said that while many of the cloud exchange partners do not have a direct in-country presence, which adds a level of complexity to the CloudConnect offering, he is confident in IS’s ability to connect customers via the company’s global centres in London and Frankfurt.
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