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AWS Transit Gateway

AWS Transit Gateway

In late 2018, AWS introduced a new feature to the AWS Cloud, and this new feature is one that really simplifies your life. Because before this new feature was released, if you wanted all of your VPCs to be able to talk to all of your other VPCs, you had to do VPC peering between each and every one of them. If you wanted your remote network to be able to talk to each and every VPC, there had to be a link into each and every VPC created. So as you can see with dozens of VPCs in a large scale deployment, there has been a lot of work. Imagine a very large scale deployment with hundreds of VPCs. It would be unbelievable to try to manage all of that. So what they've done is they've created something called the AWS Transit Gateway. And the AWS Transit Gateway is this thing that allows you to interconnect all of your different VPCs and your remote locations through one central gateway. So when we look here at the overview page about the…

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