AWS Transit Gateway features

AWS Transit Gateways supports dynamic and static layer 3 routing between Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and VPN. Routes determine the next hop depending on the destination IP address of the packet, and can point to an Amazon VPC or to a VPN connection.

You can create VPN connections between your AWS Transit Gateway and on-premises gateways using VPN. You can create multiple VPN connections that announce the same prefixes and enable Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) between these connections. By load-balancing traffic over multiple paths, ECMP can increase the bandwidth.

AWS Transit Gateway enables the resolution of public DNS hostnames to private IP addresses when queried from Amazon VPCs that are also attached to the AWS Transit Gateway.

An instance in an Amazon VPC can access a NAT gateway, Network Load Balancer, AWS PrivateLink, and Amazon Elastic File System in others Amazon VPCs that are also attached to the AWS Transit Gateway.

AWS Transit Gateway provides statistics and logs that are then used by services such as Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon VPC Flow Logs. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to get bandwidth usage between Amazon VPCs and a VPN connection, packet flow count, and packet drop count. You can also enable Amazon VPC Flow Logs on AWS Transit Gateway so you can capture information on the IP traffic routed through the AWS Transit Gateway.

You can use the command-line interface (CLI), AWS Management Console, or AWS CloudFormation to create and manage your AWS Transit Gateway. AWS Transit Gateway provides Amazon CloudWatch metrics, such as the number of bytes sent and received between Amazon VPCs and VPNs, the packet count, and the drop count. In addition, you can use Amazon VPC Flow Logs with AWS Transit Gateway to capture information about the IP traffic going through the AWS Transit Gateway attachment.

AWS Transit Gateway is integrated with Identity and Access Management (IAM), enabling you to manage access to AWS Transit Gateway securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to the AWS Transit Gateway.