Private virtual interface routing example - Amazon Direct Connect
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Private virtual interface routing example

Consider the configuration where the Amazon Direct Connect location 1 home Region is the same as the VPC home Region. There is a redundant Amazon Direct Connect location in a different Region There are two private VIFs (VIF A and VIF B) from Amazon Direct Connect location 1 (us-east-1) to the Direct Connect gateway. There is one private VIF (VIF C) from Amazon Direct Connect location (us-west-1) to the Direct Connect gateway. To have Amazon route traffic over VIF B before VIF A, set the AS_PATH attribute of VIF B to be shorter than the VIF A AS_PATH attribute.

The VIFs have the following configurations:

  • VIF A (in us-east-1) advertises 172.16.0.0/16 and has an AS_PATH attribute of 65001, 65001, 65001

  • VIF B (in us-east-1) advertises 172.16.0.0/16 and has an AS_PATH attribute of 65001, 65001

  • VIF C (in us-west-1) advertises 172.16.0.0/16 and has an AS_PATH attribute of 65001


                Private VIF Routing no AS_PATH

If you change the CIDR range configuration of VIF C, routes that fall in to the VIF C CIDR range use VIF C because it has the longest prefix match.

  • VIF C (in us-west-1) advertises 172.16.0.0/24 and has an AS_PATH attribute of 65001


                Private VIF Routing