Azure Cloud connectivity - Overview

The provisioning tools of Evolution Platform (console and APIs) allow you to set up multiple Cloud Connect services to Azure on your Orange network, serving your business priorities:

• On Demand Cloud Connect IPSEC: if you focus on price and limited usage, starting at minimum bandwidth of 10Mbs up to 1Gbs
• On-demand Cloud Connect Private: if you seek resilience, availability SLA and high bandwidth up to 10Gbs

On Demand Cloud Connector	IPSEC	Private
Connection type	Over internet - secured "IPSEC" Worldwide Universal connector, compatible with WAN MPLS, SDWAN	Private highly secured Worldwide Universal connector, compatible with WAN MPLS, SDWAN
Architecture	Standard High Availability (redundancy) Dynamic routing	High Availability (native redundancy) Dynamic routing
Bandwidth	Max 1 Gbps Range: 10/20/50/100/200/300/400/500 MBPS 1 Gbps	Max 10 Gbps Range: 50/100/200/500 MBPS 1/2/5/10 Gbps
SLA	99.9% PoPs allow to connect to any Azure / AWS / GCP region of your choice.	100% CDEs are co-located as close as possible to the Azure / AWS / GCP datacenters. Benefit of the guarantee of Orange backbone almost end to end.
SLO	Mean time to connect: 1 hour	Mean time to connect: 1 hour
Pricing	Flexible Pricing Models Public prices < Private prices This offer provides more competitive prices and lower bandwidth ranges (10 Mbps) that fit low traffic.	Flexible Pricing Models Private prices > Public prices This offer provides higher security level and higher speed (10 Gbps) and more bandwidth ranges for high traffic.
Customer target	Public offer is more suitable to new customers and customer with low traffic & workload The offer is a better fit for applications that require less critical Cloud access	Private offer is more suitable to customer looking for highest performance, resilience The offer is a better fit for applications that require highly secured Cloud access
Cloud services associated	IPSEC gateways proposed by Azure, AWS	Private connectivity circuits proposed in partnership with carriers like Azure ExpressRoute, AWS Direct Connect

Service availability

On Demand Cloud Connect IPSEC and On Demand Cloud Connect Private to Azure are available in multiple Evolution Platform locations worldwide, offering bandwidth options up to 1Gbs for IPsec and up to 10Gbs for private connectivity.

Solution architectures

Evolution Platform offers two architectures for connecting your network to Azure: connectivity over Internet IPsec and private connectivity over MPLS.