# HNCOST06-BP02 Separate traffic classes for dedicated connections
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 Create multiple dedicated connections for distinct traffic classes such as production versus backups. Assign guaranteed bandwidth to critical dedicated connections and use best-effort routing for dedicated connections. 

 **Desired outcome:** Cost-effective traffic segregation with guaranteed SLAs for priority workloads. 

 **Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established:** Low 

 **Benefits of establishing this best practice:** 
+  Simplifies cost allocation by traffic type 
+  Enables independent scaling of traffic classes 
+  Complies with network isolation requirements 

## Implementation guidance
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+  Configure separate BGP communities for dedicated connection. For example, you can achieve this using AWS Direct Connection VIFs on dedicated connections. 

### Resources
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+  [Direct Connect virtual interfaces](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/create-vif.html) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Well-Architected. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query wellarchitected` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).