AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Eric Vasquez
Eric is a specialist solutions architect focused on hybrid edge at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He helps support US federal customers with deploying AWS edge services. He manages his work-life balance by focusing his free time on his family and also enjoys gardening.
Connectivity patterns between AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS commercial partition
AWS GovCloud (US) was architected to have isolation (both physically and logically) from other AWS partitions for compliance. For this reason, AWS services, used to privately interconnect virtual private cloud (VPC) hosted resources within the same partition like AWS PrivateLink, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) peering, or AWS Transit Gateway peering, cannot span from AWS GovCloud (US) to commercial Regions natively by design. In this post, we will highlight four connectivity patterns customers can use to interconnect VPC hosted systems cross partition.