AWS Direct Connect Pricing

AWS Direct Connect pricing starts at $0.00 per GB for data transfer in and $0.03 per hour for a 50 Mbps hosted connection; port hour rates range up to $85.00 per hour for 400 Gbps dedicated connections, and data transfer out costs $0.02–$0.125 per GB depending on region. Billed usage‑based.

AWS Direct Connect is priced per usage rather than per seat.

AWS Direct Connect does not advertise a free tier on its public pricing page as of 2026-05-06. A free trial may be available on request.

Yes — AWS Direct Connect's purchase motion is self-serve. A checkout URL is published on the pricing page. No demo is required.

xpay scored AWS Direct Connect as agent-ready: every advertised plan is self-serve with public pricing. AWS Direct Connect's pricing URL resolves, but plan structure is not surfaced clearly enough for an agent to enumerate without hand-parsing. A usage-based price is published, though task-level forecasting requires the agent to estimate consumption first. Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires a sales call. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. For the full purchase simulation see the linked Agent-Ready Index scorecard.

In the Virtual Private Servers Providers category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for AWS Direct Connect to compare with 3 nearest peers.