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The Aviatrix Controller integrates native AWS VPC peering to create a peering connection between two VPCs to enable traffic flow between the VPCs privately.
  • A VPC peering connection can be created between VPCs within the same AWS region (intra-region) or across AWS regions (inter-region), where it is available.
  • A VPC peering connection can be created between VPCs in the same AWS account or in different AWS accounts.
Aviatrix simplifies how to create VPC peering by integrating requester and acceptor and route table programming into one step. You can also decide which route table participates in the AWS VPC Peering.
The following limitations apply:
  • You cannot create a peering connection between VPCs that have matching or overlapping CIDRs.
  • Transitive peering is not possible with VPC peering.

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Creating an AWS VPC Peering Connection

To create an AWS VPC Peering connection:
  1. In CoPilot, navigate to Networking > Connectivity > Native Peering tab, and click + Native Peering.
  2. For Cloud type, select AWS, you can use the dropdown menu to select Standard, GovCloud, or China.
  3. From the VPC/VNet 1 dropdown menu, select the VPC you want to peer. The VPCs are listed in the format VPC_Name(VPC_ID) and for each VPC, the cloud account name and cloud region are also shown.
To locate or display VPCs in the list by a specific cloud account name or cloud region, type the cloud account name or cloud region in the VPC/VNet list field.
  1. You can choose to build the peering for all VPC CIDRs or select custom route tables.
    • To build the peering for all VPC CIDRs, leave Select Route Tables switch Off next to the selected VPC.
    • To select custom route tables, turn Select Route Tables switch On, and from Select Route Tables dropdown menu, select the route tables(s) to peer.
  2. Do the same for the other VPC with which to create the peering.
    1. From the VPC/VNet 2 dropdown menu, select another VPC to peer with.
    • To build the peering for all VPC CIDRs, leave Select Route Tables switch Off next to the selected VPC.
    • To select custom route tables, turn Select Route Tables switch On, and from Select Route Tables dropdown menu, select the route tables(s) to peer.
  3. Click Save.
The new AWS VPC Peering connection appears in the table. The name for the peering connection is auto-generated by CoPilot. You can use the filter to display additional connection settings. You can click the peering connection name to display VPC details. The details for VPC 1 and VPC 2 are shown in their respective columns.

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Deleting an AWS VPC Peering Connection

To delete an AWS VPC peering connection:
  1. In CoPilot, navigate to Networking > Connectivity > Native Peering tab.
  2. In the table, locate the connection you want to delete and click the Delete icon on the right side of its row.
  3. To delete the peering connection, click Delete to delete the selected peering connection.
The table shows the updated list of active VPC peering connections.
To delete native peering of an HPE connection, delete the gateway attachment.Refer to the following to delete a gateway attachment: