Colt + Amazon Web Services
Optimise networks and drive digital transformation through a hybrid multi-cloud platform.
Colt + AWS: Multicast data in the cloud
Easily move your workloads to the cloud
Colt has years of experience connecting on-premise sites to multiple cloud providers worldwide and covering 500 buildings. We have honed our expertise in delivering reliable cloud connectivity solutions to our customers. We are uniquely positioned to bundle our connectivity and market data services, enabling us to offer a fully managed solution to our customers.
At Colt Capital Markets, we are committed to providing a hassle-free experience for our customers, managing all aspects of the cloud connectivity solution and ensuring seamless integration with their workflows.
At AWS, we are tailoring the partner experience to our partner's business models, to help them drive greater profitability and customer value. We continue to invest in and support our partners through simplified programs, tools, and an enhanced AWS Marketplace and Partner Central experience.
Ruth Borno, VP Worldwide Channels + Alliances, AWS
Colt Direct Connect for AWS
AWS Direct Connect was launched by AWS to help their customers reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput and to provide a more consistent and secure network experience.
Customers can establish private connectivity between AWS and their datacentre, office or colocation environment.
We offer both Hosted, and Dedicated connections as part of our Dedicated Cloud Access (DCA) service.
We make it easy to manage, flex + scale with your needs
AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centres globally. Millions of customers - including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies - are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
Colt
Colt strives to transform the way the world works through the power of connectivity, taking what’s always been in its DNA to enable customers’ success. The Colt IQ Network connects more than 900 data centres and over 29,000 on net buildings across Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs. Colt understands today’s shifting connectivity requirements and provides agile, on-demand and secure high-bandwidth networking and voice solutions to ensure enterprises can thrive.
FAQS
An FTR's primary purpose is to ensure Software products offered by AWS partners have implemented a basic set of architectural, security, and operational best practices. The FTR defines a set of objective criteria based on the AWS Well-Architected framework. This serves as a gate to ensure the products AWS endorses to customers have appropriate mitigations for the most common risks that impact end customers.
Completing an FTR is one of the primary requirements for Partners to move to the validated stage within the AWS Partner Network Software Path. After receiving FTR approval, Partners are eligible to go to market with AWS. FTR is a self-service review trhat is valuable at any stage of your cloud journey. Partners can leverage FTR process to help identify and remediate risks for the benefit of your end customer.
Our solution includes the management of all connectivity from the stock exchange within the colocation site, as well as the transport of data to the closest AWS onramp through our dedicated financial extranet, PrizmNet. We have deployed virtual distribution points of presence (POPs) within various AWS availability zones allowing customers to connect their virtual private cloud (VPC) to Colt and receive the data.
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