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May 29, 2023
Managing Director of Equinix Canada, Andrew Eppich, commented: “Toronto is a global innovation hub for AI; a leading financial centre and represents one of the biggest tech markets in the world. Today’s investment will provide Canadian businesses a digital on-ramp to the cloud to help bring the best of Canada to the world.”
With AWS Direct Connect, Canadian businesses will have access to a dedicated, high-speed, low-latency and secure network connection to AWS services through Platform Equinix via TR2, making it easier to manage their cloud workloads and applications. This will allow businesses to drive innovation by streamlining operations, increase processing potential and reduce network and application wait times.
Michael Rogan, VP, Infrastructure Platforms and Cloud at BlackBerry—an Equinix customer, shares in the excitement: “The Internet of Things represents the next great wave in business transformation. We work with businesses, government agencies, and safety-critical institutions in Canada and around the world to secure a connected future people can trust. To achieve this, we rely on secure and high-speed infrastructure that allows us to innovate and connect at scale, quickly and securely.”
Eppich added: "The introduction of AWS Direct Connect at Equinix TR2 in Toronto gives our customers access to nearby architectural options to modernize their IT infrastructure in a secure and resilient way. This also means, they can easily deploy cutting-edge applications that leverage advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning.”
As an AWS Partner and an AWS Direct Connect provider, Equinix supports Dedicated Connections and Hosted Connections in our IBX data centres within the same metro as our customers' infrastructure. This allows mission-critical workloads to benefit from faster speeds and greater bandwidth capacities, resulting in enhanced hybrid cloud architectures on Platform Equinix. With the recent announcement of the MT2 IBX in Montreal, Equinix’s Canadian footprint has grown to 16 high-quality IBX data centres coast to coast and will provide customers a digital on-ramp to Equinix’s global platform of more than 245 data centres. The launch of AWS Direct Connect in Toronto brings the total available AWS Direct Connect at Equinix locations to 46.