Document history for the Site-to-Site VPN User Guide
The following table describes the AWS Site-to-Site VPN User Guide updates.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Classic VPN info removed | Removed info about classic VPN from guide. | January 19, 2023 |
Sample logs added for Site-to-Site VPN connections. | December 9, 2022 | |
Site-to-Site VPN customers can generate configuration templates for compatible Customer Gateway (CGW) devices, making it easier to create VPN connections to AWS. This update adds support for Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) parameters for many popular CGW devices and includes two new APIs — GetVpnConnectionDeviceTypes and GetVpnConnectionDeviceSampleConfiguration. | September 21, 2021 | |
Site-to-Site VPN automatically sends notifications about your VPN connection to the AWS Health Dashboard. | October 29, 2020 | |
You can configure your VPN tunnels so that AWS brings up the tunnels. | August 27, 2020 | |
You can modify the connection options for your Site-to-Site VPN connection. | August 27, 2020 | |
You can apply additional security algorithms to your VPN tunnels. | August 14, 2020 | |
Your VPN tunnels can support IPv6 traffic inside the tunnels. | August 12, 2020 | |
This release merges the contents of the AWS Site-to-Site VPN Network Administrator Guide into this guide. | March 31, 2020 | |
You can enable acceleration for your AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. | December 3, 2019 | |
You can modify the options for a VPN tunnel in a AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. You can also configure additional tunnel options. | August 29, 2019 | |
AWS Private Certificate Authority private certificate support | You can use a private certificate from AWS Private Certificate Authority to authenticate your VPN. | August 15, 2019 |
New Site-to-Site VPN User Guide | This release separates the AWS Site-to-Site VPN (previously known as AWS Managed VPN) content from the Amazon VPC User Guide. | December 18, 2018 |
You can modify the target gateway of AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. | December 18, 2018 | |
When you create a virtual private gateway, you can specify the private Autonomous System Number (ASN) for the Amazon side of the gateway. | October 10, 2017 | |
You can specify inside tunnel CIDR blocks and custom pre-shared keys for your VPN tunnels. | October 3, 2017 | |
You can view CloudWatch metrics for your VPN connections. | May 15, 2017 | |
VPN enhancements | A VPN connection now supports the AES 256-bit encryption function, SHA-256 hashing function, NAT traversal, and additional Diffie-Hellman groups during Phase 1 and Phase 2 of a connection. In addition, you can now use the same customer gateway IP address for each VPN connection that uses the same customer gateway device. | October 28, 2015 |
VPN connections using static routing configuration | You can create IPsec VPN connections to Amazon VPC using static routing configurations. Previously, VPN connections required the use of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). We now support both types of connections and you can now establish connectivity from devices that do not support BGP, including Cisco ASA and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. | September 13, 2012 |
Automatic route propagation | You can now configure automatic propagation of routes from your VPN and AWS Direct Connect links to your VPC routing tables. | September 13, 2012 |
AWS VPN CloudHub and redundant VPN connections | You can securely communicate from one site to another with or without a VPC. You can use redundant VPN connections to provide a fault-tolerant connection to your VPC. | September 29, 2011 |
