Purchasing a Desktop in a Shared VPC

Scenarios

You can purchase a desktop in a VPC subnet that another account has shared with you. This allows for more efficient use of networking resources and reduces O&M costs.

For example, to make networking resource management easier, you can use one account to manage the IT networking resources, such as VPCs and subnets, of other accounts. Suppose you have three accounts, A, B, and C:

• Account A: the IT management account and the resource owner. You can use it to create a VPC and share subnets in it with other accounts.
• Account B: a service account that uses shared subnets. In this example, you can use account B to create desktops in Subnet-02 shared by account A.
• Account C: a service account that uses shared subnets. In this example, you can use account B to create desktops in Subnet-03 shared by account A.
  Figure 1 Service planning
  

This section describes how to purchase a desktop in a shared VPC. For more information about VPC subnet sharing, see VPC Sharing.

Constraints

• For details about the constraints on VPC sharing, see Notes and Constraints in the Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.
• If you use a shared VPC and enable Direct Connect, you need to create a dedicated load balancer as the Direct Connect access address.

Procedure

1. Log in to the console.
2. Configure parameters required for purchasing a cloud desktop.

   When configuring Network, select the VPC and subnet shared by account A.

   Figure 2 Configuring network parameters
   

   For details about other configurations, see Purchasing a Custom Desktop.