Document history for transit gateways - Amazon VPC
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Document history for transit gateways

The following table describes the releases for transit gateways.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Network function attachments

Create a network function attachment to connect a transit gateway directly to Amazon Network Firewall.

June 16, 2025

Security group referencing support

You can now reference a security group across VPCs attached to a transit gateway.

September 25, 2024

Amazon Transit Gateway Quotas

Bandwidth limits were added.

August 14, 2023

Amazon Transit Gateway Flow Logs

Transit Gateways now support Transit Gateway Flow Logs, allowing you to monitor and log network traffic between transit gateways.

July 14, 2022

Transit gateway policy tables

Use policy tables to set up dynamic routing for transit gateways for automatically exchanging routing and reachability information with peered transit gateway types.

July 13, 2022

Network Manager User Guide

Network Manager was created as a standalone guide, and is no longer included as part of the Amazon Transit Gateway User Guide.

December 2, 2021

Peering attachments

You can create a peering connection with a transit gateway in the same Region.

December 1, 2021

Transit Gateway Connect

You can establish a connection between a transit gateway and third-party virtual appliances running in a VPC.

December 10, 2020

Appliance mode

You can enable appliance mode on a VPC attachment to ensure that bidirectional traffic flows through the same Availability Zone for the attachment.

October 29, 2020

Prefix list references

You can reference a prefix list in your transit gateway route table.

August 24, 2020

Modify transit gateway

You can modify the configuration options for your transit gateway.

August 24, 2020

CloudWatch metrics for transit gateway attachments

You can view CloudWatch metrics for individual transit gateway attachments.

July 6, 2020

Network Manager Route Analyzer

You can analyze the routes in your transit gateway route tables in your global network.

May 4, 2020

Peering attachments

You can create a peering connection with a transit gateway in another Region.

December 3, 2019

Multicast support

Transit Gateway supports routing multicast traffic between subnets of attached VPCs and serves as a multicast router for instances sending traffic destined for multiple receiving instances.

December 3, 2019

Amazon Network Manager

You can visualize and monitor your global networks that are built around transit gateways.

December 3, 2019

Amazon Direct Connect support

You can use an Amazon Direct Connect gateway to connect your Amazon Direct Connect connection over a transit virtual interface to the VPCs or VPNs attached to your transit gateway.

March 27, 2019

Initial release

This release introduces transit gateways.

November 26, 2018