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AWS Cloud WAN now supports BGP communities on Direct Connect attachments for routing policy

Published
November 12, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/cloud-wan-bgp-community-directconnect/

AWS Cloud WAN BGP Communities on Direct Connect

AWS Cloud WAN now supports BGP communities on Direct Connect attachments, enabling advanced routing controls for enterprise hybrid networks. This feature allows customers to tag routes with routing intent on-premises, apply filtering and path preference rules inside Cloud WAN, and propagate communities back to their on-premises routers over Direct Connect.

With this capability, enterprises can simplify hybrid network orchestration by signaling routing policies dynamically from on-premises environments. Customers can match community tags to filter production versus disaster recovery traffic, prioritize preferred paths, or restrict regional propagation. This eliminates the need for VPN overlay workarounds and manual policy replication, reducing operational complexity and misconfiguration risk.

What to do

  • Update your routing policies to utilize BGP communities on Direct Connect attachments.
  • Review and adjust your on-premises routing configurations to match the new community tags.
  • Monitor the propagation of BGP communities to ensure proper routing behavior.

Source: AWS release notes




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