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Cloud On Demand overview
Under the Cloud On Demand offering, connectivity is provided from data centres and enterprise locations into the public cloud.
Colt has enabled connectivity into the AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM, Alibaba and OVH cloud platforms via Colt On Demand.
Customers can connect to the cloud from 1,100+ on-net data centres, 32,000+ on-net enterprise buildings, 130,000+ hybrid on-net buildings and millions of offnet buildings via an integrated carrier partner.
Customers can choose from a "hosted" connectivity model based on real time API automation across a shared interconnect and a "dedicated" model where customers are allocated a cloud port and cross connect for their own exclusive use.
Cloud ports
Under the Cloud On Demand service model, there are two cloud-specific service components – cloud ports and connections to cloud ports. Cloud ports can be hosted or dedicated. Cloud connections can be provided between a standard On Demand access port and a cloud port, or between any two cloud ports in a "cloud to cloud" topology.
Customers who wish to flex the bandwidth on their cloud circuit connections are advised to over-size the cloud port to enable bandwidth to be flexed up to this limit.
Once a cloud port has been provisioned, customers can request a new cloud connection between the A end port(s) and the cloud port. The below table summarises the cloud port bandwidth options for both the hosted and dedicated model.
Colt does not charge for hosted cloud ports. Dedicated cloud ports attract a one off installation charge and a monthly rental charge, which includes the data centre cross connect between the Colt cloud port and the cloud provider's port.
Cloud ports can be ordered as a standalone component, or as part of the order flow for an end-end connection. Hosted ports are virtual and require a Service Key (or equivalent), and are enabled in near real time. Dedicated ports require a physical build in the data centre and require an LOA from the cloud service provider to enable the service.
Note that hosted Equinix ports are also enabled via the cloud port order flows. Please refer to the "On Demand Interconnect" section for further details.
Cloud connections
Cloud connections can be provided between On Demand access ports and dedicated/hosted cloud ports or between dedicated/hosted connections under a cloud-cloud connectivity model. An additional circuit and additional cloud port is required for resilience, the exception being Microsoft Azure Expressroute - where a single cloud port can support two individual cloud connections..
Note - customers who want to benefit from Microsoft's ExpressRoute SLA, 2 circuits are mandatory. Where a single circuit is provided, Microsoft's SLA will not apply
It is important to note that Colt’s cloud OD offering is based on layer 2 Ethernet connectivity, and that customers will need to establish layer 3 peering with the cloud providers.
For all Customers planning to select a flexible contract on a Cloud On Demand service should select the upper limit of the bandwidth that they wish to flex to.
The supported bandwidth ranges for an On Demand cloud connection is based on the bandwidth of the cloud port. There are no restrictions on the circuit bandwidths supported on the B end customer port.
To learn more about each cloud partner, please click on the relevant partner using the links in the sidebar
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