AWS Direct Connect introduces inbound prefix controls and higher prefix scale

AWS Direct Connect Inbound Prefix Controls

AWS Direct Connect now offers inbound prefix controls, enabling you to allocate and manage inbound route-prefix allocations for your private and transit virtual interfaces (VIFs) based on your workload's needs. You can now allocate up to 1,000 prefixes each for IPv4 and IPv6 on your VIFs on dedicated and hosted connections.

Previously, Direct Connect VIFs accepted a maximum of 100 route prefixes. With inbound prefix controls, you can allocate up to 1,000 prefixes to a single VIF and advertise your routes directly.

What to do

• Configure prefix allocations using the AWS Direct Connect console or CLI/API.

Inbound prefix controls are available at no additional cost in all commercial AWS Regions, AWS GovCloud Regions, and the Amazon Web Services China Regions.

Source: AWS release notes

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