Create a route table for your VPC - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Create the route tableAdd routes to the route tableAssociate a subnet with the route table
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Create a route table for your VPC

Complete the following tasks to create and configure a custom route table for your VPC. By default your new route table contains local routes that allow communication within the VPC. You can add routes to direct network traffic to specific targets based on the destination IP address range.

To apply route table routes to a particular subnet, you must associate the route table with the subnet. A route table can be associated with multiple subnets. However, a subnet can only be associated with one route table at a time. Any subnet not explicitly associated with a table is implicitly associated with the main route table by default.

You can disassociate a subnet from a route table. Until you associate the subnet with another route table, it's implicitly associated with the main route table.

Note

There is a quota on the number of route tables that you can create per VPC. There is also a quota on the number of routes that you can add per route table. For more information, see Amazon VPC quotas.

Create the route table

To create a route table using the console

  1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/vpc/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Route tables.

  3. Choose Create route table.

  4. (Optional) For Name, enter a name for your route table.

  5. For VPC, choose your VPC.

  6. (Optional) To add a tag, choose Add new tag and enter the tag key and tag value.

  7. Choose Create route table.

To create a route table using the command line

Add routes to the route table

To add routes to a route table using the console

  1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/vpc/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Route tables, and select the route table.

  3. Choose Actions, Edit routes.

  4. Choose Add route.

  5. For Destination enter one of the following:

    • An IP address range - For example, 192.168.0.0/16

    • A single IP address - For example, 192.168.10.1/32

    • The ID of a prefix list - For example, pl-0abcdef1234567890

  6. For Target, select a resource type (for example, a network interface) and then enter the ID of the resource (for example, eni-11223344556677889).

  7. Choose Save changes.

To add routes to a route table using the command line

Associate a subnet with the route table

To associate a route table with a subnet using the console

  1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/vpc/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Route tables, and then select the route table.

  3. On the Subnet associations tab, choose Edit subnet associations.

  4. Select the check box for the subnet to associate with the route table.

  5. Choose Save associations.

To associate or disassociate a subnet with a route table using the command line