How can you establish a secure connection between your on-premises data center and AWS?

Establishing a secure connection between your on-premises data center and AWS can be effectively achieved through AWS Direct Connect. This service provides a dedicated network connection from your data center directly to AWS, bypassing the public internet. This dedicated connection helps in achieving lower latency and increased bandwidth, as well as improved security since it does not traverse the public network. Direct Connect can be particularly beneficial for high-throughput applications and scenarios where a consistent performance is necessary, enabling a secure and reliable connection for transporting sensitive data.

While AWS VPN can also create a secure connection over the internet, it relies on encryption and the public internet, making it potentially less reliable in comparison to the private connectivity that Direct Connect offers. Public subnets do not provide a private and secure means of connecting your data center to AWS, and AWS Lambda, being a serverless compute service, does not relate to establishing network connectivity. Hence, utilizing AWS Direct Connect is the superior and more robust option for secure connectivity between your on-premises infrastructure and AWS.