AWS Direct Connect now supports VIF Rate Limiters to help prevent network congestion

AWS Direct Connect now supports Virtual Interface (VIF) Rate Limiters on dedicated connections, which help you prevent network congestion caused by unexpected traffic spikes on a VIF which can potentially consume all available bandwidth, impacting workloads on other VIFs on the same connection. With VIF Rate Limiters, you can set a maximum bandwidth allocation for up to 10 VIFs on a dedicated connection, choosing from a wide range available capacity increments from 50 Mbps to 1.6 Tbps when using a link aggregation group. Rate limiting applies to traffic both ingressing and egressing the AWS ne