Cloud solutions offer scale, speed and reliability, but they can also rack up a hefty bill, especially for smaller businesses.

Software-defined interconnection provider Console Connect, from PCCW Global Inc., provides networking as a service, allowing users to take advantage of the company’s global private network on a pay-as-you-go basis.

“It’s all on our private network, so none of it’s accessible via the public internet, and we have a meeting place that allows our existing customers and partners to reach out across the platform and share services,” said Garrett Lowell (pictured), vice president of ecosystem partnerships for the Americas at PCCW Global. “So if one customer needs to subscribe to another customer service, they can do so right across the platform on a pay-as-to-go basis.”

Lowell spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Paul Gillin and Savannah Peterson at the recent AWS re:Invent conference, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed networking as a service, how Console Connect financially benefits its users, how it allows users to connect to each other and more. (* Disclosure below.)

Tightening the belt

Businesses frequently find themselves in the position of wanting to connect to the cloud but not dealing with the costs associated with having an always-on connection. With Console Connect, these businesses can turn off the service for any amount of time, Lowell explained.

“The complexity for customers has increased because you have a multicloud requirement or you have multiple teams accessing your cloud service provider, and there’s no one managing it from a central perspective,” he said.

Console Connect also gives users the ability to interconnect or connect to each other and conduct transactions and integrate their applications.

“Say you are a customer that’s taking advantage of our platform and you find your network is under a DDoS attack,” Lowell explained. “You can go into our meeting place, connect to one of our cloud service providers who specializes in DDoS mitigation, spin up a connection to them within a few minutes and, immediately, you can start taking care of your DDoS problem.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent:

(* Disclosure: Console Connect sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Console Connect nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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