PT conducted three different AWS EC2 interconnection scenarios at the Principled Technologies data center and an Equinix Solution Validation Center™ (SVC). The Principled Technologies engineers first constructed a test bed from a technology stack consisting of privately owned resources that included virtualized compute, NetApp® storage and F5 BIG-IP® networking resources. To simulate hybrid cloud scenarios, the environment was set up to run a distributed e-commerce application with the back-end database server residing at the Principled Technologies data center and order-entry clients residing in the AWS public cloud. The results were pretty amazing: Download the full Equinix and AWS Direct Connect test report. Find out for yourself how Equinix and AWS can accelerate your critical business applications by registering for our Equinix/AWS Direct Connect launch event now. And learn more by reading our AWS Solution Brief.