Does not involve the internet it uses dedicated private network connections between your intranet and Amazon VPC. Following are the advantages and disadvantages of Direct Connect:

Increase Reliability

Higher Bandwidth

Takes longer to set up 

Makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using Direct connect you can establish a private connection between AWS and your data center.

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