# AWS Direct Connect Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 AWS Direct Connect Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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AWS Direct Connect

## What is AWS Direct Connect?

AWS Direct Connect provides dedicated network connections between your premises and AWS. This platform helps you reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than internet-based connections. AWS Direct Connect allows you to establish private connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. It offers a range of port speeds to meet different bandwidth needs.

## What is AWS Direct Connect used for?

[Virtual Private Server](https://www.capterra.com/virtual-private-server-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 2 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### AWS Direct Connect

4.0 (2)

VS.

[### Ultahost](https://www.capterra.com/p/249700/Ultahost/)

[4.9 (44)](https://www.capterra.com/p/249700/Ultahost/#reviews)

Starting Price

Contact vendor

Starting Price

$3.25

Flat Rate, Per Month

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

3.5 (2)

Ease Of Use

4.8 (44)

Value For Money

3.5 (2)

Value For Money

4.9 (42)

Customer Service

4.0 (1)

Customer Service

4.9 (43)

## AWS Direct Connect alternatives

[Vultr](https://www.capterra.com/p/228645/Vultr/)

[4.5 (40)](https://www.capterra.com/p/228645/Vultr/#reviews)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

85%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/228645/Vultr/)

[vSphere](https://www.capterra.com/p/93512/VMware-Horizon/)

[4.7 (431)](https://www.capterra.com/p/93512/VMware-Horizon/reviews/)

Starting price

$576.96

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

98%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/93512/VMware-Horizon/)

[Dreamhost VPS](https://www.capterra.com/p/237876/Dreamhost-VPS/)

[4.3 (7)](https://www.capterra.com/p/237876/Dreamhost-VPS/#reviews)

Starting price

$15.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

86%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/237876/Dreamhost-VPS/)

[Linode](https://www.capterra.com/p/210618/Linode/)

[4.6 (22)](https://www.capterra.com/p/210618/Linode/reviews/)

Starting price

$5.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

95%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/210618/Linode/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Dedicated Virtual Resources

4.5 (2)

100.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Offers dedicated resources like RAM, CPU, bandwidth, and storage for managing hosting, software installation, and other operations.

Performance Management

4.0 (2)

100.00% of 2 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Organize and manage the accomplishments and development of employees or performance of applications or systems

Configuration Management

Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services

Monitoring

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Security Tools

Includes firewalls, intrusion detection, and network-based antivirus programs to provide security against online threats

SSL Security

Security protocol that ensures secure, encrypted communication over the internet, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access

AWS Direct Connect 6 features

Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services

Offers dedicated resources like RAM, CPU, bandwidth, and storage for managing hosting, software installation, and other operations.

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Organize and manage the accomplishments and development of employees or performance of applications or systems

Includes firewalls, intrusion detection, and network-based antivirus programs to provide security against online threats

Security protocol that ensures secure, encrypted communication over the internet, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access

Features

4.0 (2)

4.0

Based on 2 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

3.5 (2)

### Starting price

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for pricing

Free trial  
not available

Value for money

3.5 (2)

3.5

Based on 2 reviews

## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.0 (1)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.0 (1)

4.0

Based on 1 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.0

Based on 2 reviews

Filter by rating

5(0)

4(2)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

NK

Nana Kwame M.

Teaching Assistant

Education Management

### "AWS Direct Connect is high performing"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

March 19, 2023

Though it is expensive, they compensate us with the high performance of our connections.

Pros

Having dedicated connectivity ultimately leads to the high performance of this software and it integrates with the other AWS services.

Cons

It is quite expensive than the current hack that we were using before we switched to it.

Switched from

[Megaport](https://www.capterra.com/p/199268/Megaport/)

[Interconnection Oriented Architecture](https://www.capterra.com/p/168864/IOA/)

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Pawel W.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

### "AWS DirectConnect to decrease network latency"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

September 8, 2022

Pros

AWS DirectConnect is a very sophisticated tool for systems requiring private and low latency connection with AWS services. I had the opportunity to maintain the AWS DirectConnect usage in the system and it indeed decreased the latency metrics in the system.

Cons

This is very sophisticated feature that might be replaced with for example Amazon VPC (for privacy requirements). I would rather lean on using this feature for achieving low latency systems.

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