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Create a peering attachment using Amazon VPC Transit Gateways

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Create a peering attachment using Amazon VPC Transit Gateways - Amazon VPC

Before you begin, ensure that you have the ID of the transit gateway that you want to attach. If the transit gateway is in another AWS account, ensure that you have the AWS account ID of the owner of the transit gateway.

After you create the peering attachment, the owner of the accepter transit gateway must accept the attachment request.

To create a peering attachment using the console

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

  2. On the navigation pane, choose Transit Gateway Attachments.

  3. Choose Create transit gateway attachment.

  4. For Transit gateway ID, choose the transit gateway for the attachment. You can choose a transit gateway that you own. Transit gateways that are shared with you are not available for peering.

  5. For Attachment type, choose Peering Connection.

  6. Optionally enter a name tag for the attachment.

  7. For Account, do one of the following:

    • If the transit gateway is in your account, choose My account.

    • If the transit gateway is in different AWS account, choose Other account. For Account ID, enter the AWS account ID.

  8. For Region, choose the Region that the transit gateway is located in.

  9. For Transit gateway (accepter), enter the ID of the transit gateway that you want to attach.

  10. Choose Create transit gateway attachment.

To create a peering attachment using the AWS CLI

Use the create-transit-gateway-peering-attachment command.

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