Announcing Support for Inter-Region VPC Peering

Amazon EC2 now allows peering relationships to be established between Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across different AWS regions. Inter-Region VPC Peering allows VPC resources like EC2 instances, RDS databases and Lambda functions running in different AWS regions to communicate with each other using private IP addresses, without requiring gateways, VPN connections or separate network appliances.

Inter-Region VPC Peering provides a simple and cost-effective way to share resources between regions or replicate data for geographic redundancy. Built on the same horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available technology that powers VPC today, Inter-Region VPC Peering encrypts inter-region traffic with no single point of failure or bandwidth bottleneck. Traffic using Inter-Region VPC Peering always stays on the global AWS backbone and never traverses the public internet, thereby reducing threat vectors, such as common exploits and DDoS attacks.

Data transferred across Inter-Region VPC Peering connections is charged at the standard inter-region data transfer rates.

Inter-Region VPC Peering is available in AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) with support for other regions coming soon.

For more information, refer to the documentation for Amazon VPC Peering.