# Configuring a Multi-Region Access Point for use with Amazon PrivateLink
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You can use Multi-Region Access Points to route Amazon S3 request traffic between Amazon Web Services Regions. Each Multi-Region Access Point global endpoint routes Amazon S3 data request traffic from multiple sources without your having to build complex networking configurations with separate endpoints. These data-request traffic sources include:
+ Traffic originating in a virtual private cloud (VPC)
+ Traffic from on-premises data centers traveling over Amazon PrivateLink 
+ Traffic from the public internet

If you establish an Amazon PrivateLink connection to an S3 Multi-Region Access Point, you can route S3 requests into Amazon, or across multiple Amazon Web Services Regions, over a private connection by using a simple network architecture and configuration. When you use Amazon PrivateLink, you don't need to configure a VPC peering connection.

**Topics**
+ [Configuring Multi-Region Access Point opt-in Regions](ConfiguringMrapOptInRegions.md)
+ [Configuring a Multi-Region Access Point for use with Amazon PrivateLink](MultiRegionAccessPointsPrivateLink.md)
+ [Removing access to a Multi-Region Access Point from a VPC endpoint](RemovingMultiRegionAccessPointAccess.md)