Work with Amazon-managed prefix lists - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
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Work with Amazon-managed prefix lists

Amazon-managed prefix lists are sets of IP address ranges for Amazon services.

Use an Amazon-managed prefix list

Amazon-managed prefix lists are created and maintained by Amazon and can be used by anyone with an Amazon account. You cannot create, modify, share, or delete an Amazon-managed prefix list.

As with customer-managed prefix lists, you can use Amazon-managed prefix lists with Amazon resources such as security groups and route tables. For more information, see Reference prefix lists in your Amazon resources.

Amazon-managed prefix list weight

The weight of an Amazon-managed prefix list refers to the number of entries that it takes up in a resource.

For example, the weight of a Amazon CloudFront managed prefix list is 55. Here's how the this affects your Amazon VPC quotas:

Available Amazon-managed prefix lists

The following services provide Amazon-managed prefix lists.

Amazon Web Service Prefix list name Weight
Amazon CloudFront com.amazonaws.global.cloudfront.origin-facing 55
Amazon DynamoDB com.amazonaws.region.dynamodb 1
Amazon Ground Station com.amazonaws.global.groundstation 5
Amazon Route 53 com.amazonaws.region.ipv6.route53-healthchecks 25
com.amazonaws.region.route53-healthchecks 25
Amazon S3 com.amazonaws.region.s3 1
Amazon S3 Express One Zone com.amazonaws.region.s3express 6
Amazon VPC Lattice com.amazonaws.region.vpc-lattice 10
com.amazonaws.region.ipv6.vpc-lattice 10
To view the Amazon-managed prefix lists using the console
  1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/vpc/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Managed Prefix Lists.

  3. In the search field, add the Owner ID: Amazon filter.

To view the Amazon-managed prefix lists using the Amazon CLI

Use the describe-managed-prefix-lists command as follows.

aws ec2 describe-managed-prefix-lists --filters Name=owner-id,Values=AWS