Connecting Networks with AWS Transit Gateway
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 2 minutes and 6 seconds
Students: 713
Rating: 5/5
This lesson explores AWS Transit Gateway - the best way to connect large numbers of VPCs and on-premises networks together. In this lesson, we are going to cover a lot of important topics that will make your network administrators very happy because they won't have to deal with tens or hundreds of independent connections anymore.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to create your own large network topology that uses AWS Transit Gateway to connect multiple VPCs
- Understand when and why it becomes appropriate to transition away from the standard methods of VPC peering when connecting large numbers of networks
Intended Audience
- Solutions architects
- Network engineers
- Anyone who wants to know more about AWS networking and how to solve some of the larger-scale problems related to it
Prerequisites
- A decent background in computing
- Basic knowledge of networking within the AWS Cloud
- Familiarity with network security and on-premises data centers will help to drive some of these points home
- Experience peering VPCs would also be beneficial, but is not essential
Covered Topics