Cloud Connect: Direct Fiber to the Cloud
Private fiber from your premises to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle. Lightpath owns the infrastructure end to end — one contract, one SLA.
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78% lower data transfer costs
AWS Direct Connect transfers data at $0.02 per gigabyte. Over the public Internet, the rate is $0.09. At a terabyte a day, that difference is roughly $25,500 a month.
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Owned fiber, end to end
12,100 route miles. 18,000+ on-net locations. When something breaks, one team built it and one team fixes it.
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Up to 100 Gbps to the cloud
Dedicated connections at 1, 10 or 100 Gbps. Hosted connections from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps. Sized to your workload, not to a default tier.
Cloud Direct Connect
Most cloud performance problems aren’t a bandwidth problem. They’re a path problem. Cloud traffic traveling over the public Internet shares infrastructure with every other organization on the same route — variable latency, best-effort routing and full egress pricing at every hop.
Lightpath Cloud Connect takes that traffic off the public Internet entirely. A dedicated private fiber path from your premises runs directly to the cloud on-ramp. No shared exchange. No third-party handoff. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle and others are reachable on connections Lightpath owns from end to end.
Direct Cloud Connectivity to Industry Leaders
Cloud providers reachable via direct private connection from Lightpath:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect
- Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
- Microsoft Azure Government ExpressRoute (FedRAMP-eligible)
- Google Cloud Interconnect
- Oracle FastConnect
- Equinix Fabric
Direct Connections to Data Center Leaders
On-ramp locations:
- Boston: Markley Group, 1 Summer Street
- Available: AWS Direct Connect
- Ashburn, Va.: Equinix DC2/DC11
- Available: AWS Direct Connect
- Ashburn, Va.: Equinix DC2
- Available: Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute; Microsoft Azure Government ExpressRoute
- Ashburn, Va.: Equinix DC5
- Available: Equinix Fabric
- Ashburn, Va.: Equinix DC6
- Available: Oracle FastConnect
- Ashburn, Va.: Equinix DC1–DC15, DC21 (DC21 in progress)
- Available: Google Cloud Interconnect
- Chicago: Equinix CH1, 350 E Cermak Rd
- Available: Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
- Chicago: Equinix CH2, 350 E Cermak Rd
- Available: AWS Direct Connect
- Chicago: Digital Realty, 350 E Cermak Rd
- Available: Oracle FastConnect
- Miami: Equinix MI1, 50 NE 9th Street
- Available: AWS Direct Connect; Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
- Secaucus, N.J.: Equinix NY4, 755 Secaucus Rd
- Available: Equinix Fabric
- Secaucus, N.J.: Equinix NY5, 800 Secaucus Rd
- Available: AWS Direct Connect; Google Cloud Interconnect; Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute; Microsoft Azure Government ExpressRoute
Why Choose Lightpath Cloud Connect with Direct Fiber?
Better Performance and Security
A direct connection is a different path, not a faster version of the same one. Lightpath fiber runs from your building to the cloud on-ramp without touching the public Internet. Latency is predictable. Throughput holds under load. And the per-gigabyte cost of moving data drops to $0.02 at the standard AWS Direct Connect tier versus $0.09 over the public Internet.
Upgrading your dedicated internet access (DIA) circuit doesn’t change any of that. Faster access to the public Internet is a faster car on the same highway. The path is the problem.
Hosted vs. Dedicated | What’s the right fit?
- Hosted Cloud Connect delivers bandwidth over a shared network-to-network interface. Lightpath provisions it through our management account. It fits mid-market organizations with moderate data volumes and room to grow into higher tiers.
- Dedicated Cloud Connect gives you a full cross-connect with redundant Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peering. One physical port, one circuit, no shared capacity. Built for financial services, healthcare and other organizations where performance and compliance consistency aren’t negotiable.
A Cloud-First Partnership
Who this is built for
Financial services organizations running trading data, risk analytics and real-time market feeds across hybrid infrastructure. Healthcare systems moving imaging files, electronic health records and AI diagnostic workloads on HIPAA-governed paths. Government agencies requiring FedRAMP-compliant private connectivity to Azure Government. Mid-market companies where cloud egress is becoming a visible budget line rather than a background cost.
Lightpath has operated in this market for 30 years. 2025 revenue was $468 million with $350 million in capital expenditure committed for our 2026 network build-out. The infrastructure backing this product is not just a roadmap item, it’s enterprise validated on a large scale.
(Cloud) Connect with Lightpath
95 percent of IT leaders report unexpected cloud charges (Backblaze, 2025). 2026 cloud bills are tracking 30 to 40 percent over forecast, driven by data access and egress fees. A Cloud Connect engineer can run your numbers — actual data volumes, current egress rates, projected savings — before you commit to anything.
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