Site-to-Site VPN vs dedicated interconnect

WHAT IT TESTS: whether you can weigh hybrid connectivity options on cost, latency consistency, bandwidth, and provisioning time. ANSWER OUTLINE: a Site-to-Site VPN tunnels encrypted traffic over the public internet, is fast to stand up and cheap but inherits the internet's variable latency and limited throughput. A dedicated interconnect like Direct Connect or ExpressRoute is a private physical circuit with consistent low latency, high bandwidth, and stronger SLAs, but costs more and takes weeks to provision.