lab-021

Lab-021

VPC Peering

Difficulty Level: 2

Creation Date: July 1, 2020

Original Author(s): Thyago Mota

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Goal

The goal of this lab is to illustrate a VPC peering connection, a way to connect two VPCs using a private connection.

Architecture Diagram

Overview

Once the VPCs and subnets are created, the internet gateway and the EC2 instances are launched and configured, follow the steps described next.

Step 1 - Create the Peering Connection

Step 2 - Accept the Peering Connection

Step 3 - Modify Route Tables

First on the VPC A side:

Then on the VPC B side:

To test the setting, first ssh to the EC2 instance A (the one on VCP A). Then try to ssh to EC2 instance B (the on on VPC B) using its private IP address.