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.
- The 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.
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 of charge within a region and billed based on standard pricing across regions |
|
General Consulting and Service Use FAQs
- What Can I Do with Cloud Connect?
- How Do I Configure Cloud Connect?
- What Are the Differences Between Cloud Connect and VPC Peering?
- What Tools Can I Use to Test Network Connectivity After All Configurations Are Complete?
- What Network Instance Types Does Cloud Connect Support?
- How Many Bandwidth Packages Can I Bind to a Cloud Connection?
- Are the Uplink and Downlink Rates of the Configured Inter-Region Bandwidth the Same?
- Are There Any Limits on the Traffic for Cross-Region Network Communications?
- What Are the Metrics for Traffic Monitoring?
- What Are the Restrictions of Using Cloud Connect?
- Where Can I Add Routes for a Cloud Connection on the Management Console?
- Do I Need to Bind an EIP to Each ECS in the VPCs Connected over a Cloud Connection?
- How Can I Modify the Bandwidth of a Purchased Bandwidth Package?
- Will the Modified Inter-Region Bandwidth Take Effect Immediately?
- How Can I Modify Inter-Region Bandwidth?
- Do I Need to Create Another Cloud Connection If Network Instances in One Region Need to Communicate with Network Instances in Two Other Regions That Have Already Been Loaded to a Cloud Connection?
- Are Network Circuits Physically Isolated?
- Is Cloud Connect an Out-Of-The-Box Service?
- How Can Cloud Connect Offer High Availability?
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