AWS Site-to-Site VPN announces 5 Gbps bandwidth tunnels

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports VPN connections with up to 5 Gbps bandwidth per tunnel, a 4x improvement from existing limit of 1.25 Gbps. This increased bandwidth benefits customers who require high-capacity connections for bandwidth-intensive hybrid applications, big data migrations, and disaster recovery architectures while maintaining traffic encryption between AWS and their remote sites. Customers can also use 5 Gbps VPN connections as a backup or overlay for their high capacity AWS Direct Connect connections.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that allows you to create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. Until now, Site-to-Site VPN supported a maximum of 1.25Gbps bandwidth per tunnel and customers had to rely on ECMP (Equal cost multi path) to logically bond multiple tunnels to achieve higher bandwidth. With this launch, customers can now configure their tunnel bandwidth to 5 Gbps, reducing the need to deploy complex protocols such as ECMP while ensuring consistent bandwidth performance.

This capability is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where AWS Site-to-Site VPN is available, except Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Zurich), Canada West (Calgary), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. To learn more and get started, visit the AWS Site-to-Site VPN documentation.