Comparing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering and AWS Transit Gateway

This lab introduces you to Amazon VPC peering and AWS Transit Gateway usage. In this lab you will configure network routing between 3 Amazon VPC’s located in the 2 AWS regions. Each Amazon VPC contains a two EC2 instances. Initially, you will use Amazon VPC peering to configure network connectivity. Afterwards, you will replace the Amazon VPC peering with AWS Transit Gateway, and compare the two features.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create highly available and resilient network connections through VPC peering
• Configure VPC peering routing control
• Create highly available and resilient network connections through AWS Transit Gateway
• Configure AWS Transit Gateway routing control

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Infrastructure Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of networking, including routing technology, IP addressing
• Cursory understanding of Amazon VPC
• Recommended: 2 years networking, 2-5 years AWS experience

Course Outline

• Task 1: Setup Cross Regional VPC peering connections
• Task 2: Configure network traffic routing across VPC peering connection
• Task 3: Test network connectivity across VPC peering connections
• Task 4: *Optional* - Segment network traffic across a VPC peering connection
• Task 5: Remove VPC peering connections
• Task 6: Setup AWS Transit Gateway connections
• Task 7: Configure AWS Transit Gateway Attachments
• Task 8: Configure network traffic routing across AWS Transit Gateway connection
• Task 9: Test network connectivity across AWS Transit Gateway connection
• Task 10: *Optional* - Segment network traffic across AWS Transit Gateway connection