>VPC peering used to be annoying; now there are better options like Transit Gateway, VPC sharing between accounts, resource sharing between accounts, and Cloud WAN.

TGW is... twice as expensive as vpc peering?

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klysm 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

VPC sharing is the sleeper here. You can do cross account networking all in the same VPC and skip all the expensive stuff.

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aaronblohowiak 5 days ago | parent [-]

as long as your VPCs aren't too big, yea.

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Hikikomori 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Shared vpcs can get pretty big. Even if you approach the NAU limit you can use privatelink or TGW to have more large shared vpcs.

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klysm 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If you are exhausting an entire VPC I’d be pretty impressed!

	▲	aaronblohowiak 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Used to work at nflx, biiiiig headaches

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alFReD-NSH 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And vpc sharing is free. Cost and architecture are tied.

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Hikikomori 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

More than twice as same AZ is free with peering. But if you're big enough you can get better deals on cost.

But unlike peering TGW traffic flows through an additional compute layer so it has additional cost.