What Are the Differences Between Cloud Connect and VPC Peering?

Cloud Connect differs from VPC Peering in the following ways:

Interworking capabilities: VPC Peering can only connect two VPCs in the same region, but Cloud Connect can connect multiple VPCs either in the same region or in different regions.
Network capabilities: After you create a VPC peering connection, you need to manually configure routes. With Cloud Connect, you do not need to configure routes.
Th bearer network: VPC Peering uses the data center network, but Cloud Connect uses a DCI backbone network.
Billing: VPC Peering is free. With Cloud Connect, communications between VPCs in the same region is also free, but cross-region communications require a bandwidth package, which is not free.

Table 1 compares these differences.

**Table 1** Differences between Cloud Connect and VPC Peering
Item		VPC Peering	Cloud Connect
Interworking capability	VPCs within a region	Supported	Supported
	VPCs across regions	Not supported	Supported
	Cross-border compliance	Not supported	Supported
Networking capability		Manual routing configuration	Automatic routing configuration
Bearer network		Data center network in the region	Inter-region DCI backbone network
Pricing		Free of charge	Free within a region and billed based on standard pricing across regions

Parent topic: General Consulting and Service Use

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