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Create An AWS VPC Peering Connection

An AWS VPC peering connection allows instances in two VPCs to communicate as if they are in the same network using private IP addresses. To create a peering connection, the requester VPC initiates the request and the accepter VPC must accept. Both VPCs then need to add routes and open security groups to complete the connection and allow traffic to flow between the VPCs.

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Create An AWS VPC Peering Connection

An AWS VPC peering connection allows instances in two VPCs to communicate as if they are in the same network using private IP addresses. To create a peering connection, the requester VPC initiates the request and the accepter VPC must accept. Both VPCs then need to add routes and open security groups to complete the connection and allow traffic to flow between the VPCs.

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Create an AWS VPC Peering Connection

An AWS (Amazon Web Services) VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) peering


connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables us
to route traffic between them using private IPv4/IPv6 addresses.
Instances in either VPC can communicate with each other as if they are
within the same network. We can create a VPC peering connection
between our own VPCs, or with a VPC in another AWS account. The VPCs
can be in different regions (inter-region VPC peering connection).

VPC Peering Connection

Create VPC Peering Connection (Initiate


from the Requester — VPC 1)
To initiate the VPC Peering from VPC 1 (for ex. London), we’ll follow these
steps.

Step 1: Login to AWS Console.

Step 2: Search VPC from Services or we can find VPC in “Networking &


Content Delivery” section.

Step 3: Go to VPC -> Peering Connection.


Step 4: Select “Create Peering Connection”.

Step 5: Provide a name tag to the Peering Connection.

Step 6: Select a local VPC (Requester) to peer with. (Local VPC to initiate
the request), it’ll show us the CIDR Block associated with the local VPC.

Step 7: Select another VPC to peer with. Here, we can select a VPC from
the same account or another account. We can also select from the same
region and from another region (inter-region VPC Peering Connection) as
well.

Step 8: Provide target VPC (Accepter) ID and click on Create Peering


Connection.

Create Peering Connection

Now, we can see the Peering Connection is initiated and status is “Pending
Acceptance”, we need to accept the request on destination VPC (VPC 2).
Peering Connection (Pending Acceptance)

Accept VPC Peering Connection (accept


from the Accepter — VPC 2)
We can see the same status on Accepter VPC (VPC 2) as well.

Step 1: Select the pending VPC Peering Connection

Accept Request

Step 2: Select “Accept Request” and Accept Request confirmation comes.

Peering Request Confirmation

VPC Peering Connection is active


We can check that the status is now active on both VPCs.
Peering Connection Active Status

Some additional steps to complete the


connection
We’ve completed the Peering Connection procedure but still, we need to
follow some additional step to complete the connectivity between 2 VPCs.

Step 1: Create Routes on both ends.

On VPC 1, we need to provide CIDR for destination VPC (VPC 2) and


target should be “Peering Connection”. Click on “Save routes”.

Adding Routes
On VPC 2, we need to provide CIDR for destination VPC (VPC 1) and
target should be “Peering Connection”. Click on “Save routes”.

Step 2: Allow respective CIDR on the “Security Group” of particular


service so that we can establish the connection to that service. I allowed
CIDR on destination EC2 virtual machine’s Security Group.

Step3: Ping destination service (EC2) from source to check if everything is


configured properly.

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