AWS Direct Connect 100G Comes to Bangalore: What Changes

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The announcement

• AWS What's New: AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Bangalore, India, Oct 22 2026

On October 22, 2026, AWS announced that its existing Direct Connect location in the Netmagic DC2 data center near Bangalore now offers 100 Gbps dedicated connections. The location itself is not new. The 100G option is.

From that one building, you can now run a private, physical link into every public AWS Region except the ones in China, plus the AWS GovCloud Regions and AWS Local Zones. That is the whole announcement, three short paragraphs on the AWS site. But if your company moves heavy data between its own hardware and AWS, it is worth five minutes of your attention.

Key takeaways

• AWS added 100 Gbps dedicated connections at its existing Direct Connect location in Netmagic DC2, near Bangalore.
• The announcement is dated October 22, 2026.
• From this location you can reach all public AWS Regions except China, plus GovCloud Regions and Local Zones.
• Direct Connect is a private, physical connection between AWS and your data center, office or colocation space.
• AWS says these links can give a more consistent network experience than the public internet. It does not promise "faster".
• Bangalore is one of over 150 Direct Connect locations worldwide.

What did AWS actually announce for Bangalore?

Here is everything the announcement says, in plain words.

What	Detail
Date	October 22, 2026
Service	AWS Direct Connect
Location	Netmagic DC2 data center, near Bangalore, India
Is the location new?	No. It is an existing Direct Connect location
What is new	100 Gbps dedicated connections
What you can reach	All public AWS Regions (except China), AWS GovCloud Regions, AWS Local Zones
Global footprint	Over 150 Direct Connect locations

Notice what is not in that table. No price. No launch partners. No list of other port speeds. AWS points you to the locations section of the Direct Connect product pages and to a getting started page for buying and deploying. I am not going to guess at numbers AWS did not publish here, and you should not either. Read those pages before you budget anything.

What is AWS Direct Connect, in one paragraph?

Normally your servers talk to AWS over the public internet. Your traffic shares the road with everyone else's.

Direct Connect replaces that road with a private, physical connection between AWS and a place you control: your data center, your office, or a rack in a colocation facility. In AWS's words, these private connections "can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet."

Read that sentence carefully. The word is consistent. AWS is selling you predictability, not a speed record. That distinction matters later when you decide whether you need this at all.

Why does a 100G port in Bangalore matter to a developer?

If you are a developer, you will probably never order a Direct Connect port yourself. That is a job for a network or platform team. So why should you care?

Because the network decides which architectures are realistic. When the pipe between your own hardware and AWS gets bigger and more predictable, designs that used to be painful become boring. Boring is good.

Let me put 100 Gbps in numbers you can feel. This is theoretical line rate, before any protocol overhead, so treat it as a ceiling:

• 100 Gbps is 12.5 gigabytes per second.
• 1 TB takes about 80 seconds at that rate.
• 100 TB takes about 8,000 seconds, a little over 2 hours.

Real transfers will be slower than this. But the order of magnitude is the point. If a sync job between your hardware and AWS currently needs an overnight window, a link this size changes what you can schedule and when.

That changes the kind of questions your team asks. Instead of "can we even move this?", you get to ask "should we?"

Who should actually pay attention?

Direct Connect is built for one setup: you have your own data center, office network or colocation rack, and you also use AWS. If any of these sound like your company, this announcement is relevant:

• You keep databases or file stores on your own hardware and sync large volumes into AWS every day.
• You run backups or disaster recovery copies from your own hardware into AWS and the window keeps getting tighter.
• You keep data in your data center but run compute for it in AWS.
• You already have equipment in or near Netmagic DC2 and want a private path into AWS.
• You serve customers through a Region outside India and want a private route there from Bangalore.

That last point is easy to miss. The Bangalore location is not limited to Indian Regions. AWS says you can reach all public Regions except China. So a team in Bangalore serving users through a Region in another country can still enter AWS privately from this one facility.

If you are a small startup running entirely inside AWS with no hardware of your own, this changes nothing for you today. Your traffic is already inside AWS. Skip to the FAQ and get back to work.

What changes in practice?

Three things, mostly.

1. The ceiling went up at a location that already existed. Because Netmagic DC2 was already a Direct Connect location, teams that already use it are not starting from zero. The difference is that a 100 Gbps dedicated connection is now an option there. If your team has been hitting the limits of what it runs today, that is the conversation to have.

2. Hybrid becomes a more comfortable long term answer. A lot of teams treat "our own hardware plus cloud" as a temporary state on the way to all cloud. A big, predictable private link makes it more reasonable to keep some things on your own hardware for good, and still move data back and forth without drama.

3. Global reach from one entry point. Public Regions (except China), GovCloud Regions and Local Zones are all reachable from this location. You do not need a separate physical presence for every Region you care about. Whether you need GovCloud from Bangalore is a narrow question, but the option is in the announcement.

What does not change: your application code. Direct Connect is a network decision. Your SDK calls, your APIs and your deploy pipeline look the same. What changes is how much data you can afford to move and how predictable that movement is.

What should you do this week?

Here is a short, concrete list. None of it needs a purchase order.

• List your heavy flows. Write down every regular transfer between your own hardware and AWS. Note the size and how often it runs.
• Measure what you have now. Time one real transfer end to end. Note how much the time varies between runs, because consistency is what Direct Connect is selling.
• Find your nearest location. Check the locations section of the Direct Connect product pages. Confirm whether Netmagic DC2 is actually close to where your hardware lives.
• Read the getting started page. That is where AWS explains how to purchase and deploy. Get the real costs from there, not from a blog post.
• Ask your platform team one question. "Are we bottlenecked on the network between our hardware and AWS?" If the answer is no, you are done.
• Write a one page note. Current transfer times, how much they vary, what a bigger private link would let you do. That note is what gets budget approved, or what proves you do not need it.

If you are not the person who owns networking at your company, the most useful thing you can do is the measurement. Numbers end debates faster than opinions.

FAQ

What is new in the AWS Direct Connect Bangalore announcement?

AWS added 100 Gbps dedicated connections at its existing Direct Connect location in the Netmagic DC2 data center near Bangalore. The location itself was already live before October 22, 2026. The new part is the 100G dedicated connection option.

Can I reach AWS Regions outside India from the Bangalore location?

Yes. AWS says you can reach all public AWS Regions except those in China from this location. GovCloud Regions and Local Zones are reachable too.

Is Direct Connect faster than the public internet?

AWS does not say faster. It says these private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than connections made over the public internet. Think predictable performance rather than a guaranteed speed gain.

How much does a 100G Direct Connect port in Bangalore cost?

The announcement does not include pricing. AWS points to the Direct Connect product detail pages and its getting started page for purchase and deployment details, so check those before you budget.

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Written by Adithya Guttha, Founder of Art of Code.