A startup needs best-effort private connectivity into a VPC and does not need a bandwidth commitment or the whole port. A partner can sell a hosted connection. What is sufficient?
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Short Explanation
You did not ask for a port of your own, so you do not have to buy one. You take the hosted connection for best-effort reachability into the VPC. A dedicated port is for a commitment you did not make, and best-effort traffic is not rejected on a hosted connection.
Full Explanation
A hosted connection is a slice of a partner port. It fits best-effort private reachability when nobody required a committed bandwidth or the whole port. A dedicated port is the right fit for a commitment or for features the hosted slice does not have. It is not required here. An internet VPN can reach a VPC and it is not the private hosted connection they can already buy. MACsec is not part of every hosted slice and was not in the requirement. Best-effort does not imply link encryption. Exam caveat: hosted still shares the partner port. If the startup later needs a guaranteed rate, the hosted connection stops being sufficient. Operational check: the virtual interface should show the VPC prefixes over the hosted connection, and no dedicated port should be required for this design.