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Rejecting a VPC Peering Connection

You can reject any VPC peering connection request that you've received that's in the pending-acceptance state. You should only accept VPC peering connections from AWS accounts that you know and trust; you can reject any unwanted requests.

To reject a VPC peering connection

1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Peering Connections.

3. Select the VPC peering connection, and choose Actions, Reject Request.

4. In the confirmation dialog box, choose Yes, Reject.

To reject a VPC peering connection using the command line or an API

• reject-vpc-peering-connection (AWS CLI)

• Deny-EC2VpcPeeringConnection (AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell)

• RejectVpcPeeringConnection (Amazon EC2 Query API)