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Manage a project VPC peering with AWS

Set up a peering connection between your Aiven project VPC and an AWS VPC.

Prerequisites​

Create a peering connection​

Collect data from AWS​

To create a peering connection in Aiven, first collect the required data from AWS:

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and go to your profile information.
  2. Find and save your account ID.
  3. Open the navigation menu, and select All services.
  4. Find Networking & Content Delivery, and go to VPC > Your VPCs.
  5. Find a VPC to peer, preview its details, and save its ID and a cloud region that it's located in.

Create a peering in Aiven​

With the data collected from AWS, create a project VPC peering connection using a tool of your choice:

  1. Log in to the Aiven Console, and go to your project page.
  2. Click VPCs in the sidebar.
  3. On the Virtual private clouds page, select a project VPC to peer.
  4. On the VPC details page, go to the VPC peering connections section and click Create peering request.
  5. In the Create peering request window:
    1. Enter the following:
      • AWS account ID
      • AWS VPC region
      • AWS VPC ID
    2. Click Create.

This adds a connection with the Pending peer status in the Aiven Console and a connection pending acceptance in the AWS Management Console.

Accept the peering request in AWS​

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console, open the navigation menu, and select All services.
  2. Find Networking & Content Delivery, and go to VPC > Peering connections.
  3. Find your peering connection from Aiven pending acceptance, select it, and click Actions > Accept request.
  4. Create or update your AWS route tables to match your Aiven CIDR settings.

At this point, your peering connection status should be visible as Active both in the Aiven Console and in the AWS Management Console.

Delete the peering​

important

Once you delete your VPC peering on the Aiven Platform, the cloud-provider side of the peering connection becomes inactive or deleted, and the traffic between the disconnected VPCs is terminated.

Delete a project VPC peering using a tool of your choice:

  1. Log in to the Aiven Console, and go to your project page.
  2. Click VPCs in the sidebar.
  3. On the Virtual private clouds page, select a project VPC.
  4. On the VPC details page, go to the VPC peering connections section, find the peering to be deleted, and click Actions > Delete.
  5. In the Confirmation window, click Delete VPC peering.