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Peering Connections

Overview​

Peering connections are used to connect a Dragonfly Cloud private network with a VPC in your cloud provider account to establish communication between the two networks over private IP space. Private IP space communication is more secure, more performant, and reduces data transfer costs incurred by cloud providers.

Once you have a private network created, as described in the networks section, you can create a peering connection by clicking the three-dot menu () on the right side of the network and then clicking the +Connect button, or simply by clicking the +Add Connection button under the network itself.

Continue to the next sections for instructions on how to create a peering connection with your cloud provider.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)​

Follow the steps below to create a peering connection within the Dragonfly Cloud console, and then accept the peering connection in your AWS account console:

  • In the Networks tab of the Dragonfly Cloud console, click the +Add Connection button, and a dialog will appear.
  • Specify a Name, the Acceptor Region, the Acceptor Account ID (also called owner ID in AWS), and the Acceptor VPC ID of your AWS VPC from where you want to connect, and click Create.
  • The connection will be created in the Inactive status.
  • Next, you should accept the peering connection in your AWS account console (VPC > Peering Connections).
  • Create a route in your AWS VPC, set the destination to the CIDR of the Dragonfly Cloud private network, and set the target to the AWS peering connection ID.
  • You can read more about AWS peering connections here.
  • Modify your relevant security groups to allow traffic from the Dragonfly Cloud private network CIDR.
  • Observe the connection becoming Active after a few moments in the Dragonfly Cloud console.

If you haven't done so already, create a data store with a private endpoint and start building your applications with it. Read more about creating a data store with a private endpoint here.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)​

Follow the steps below to create a peering connection within the Dragonfly Cloud console, and then accept the peering connection in your GCP account console:

  • In the Networks tab of the Dragonfly Cloud console, click the +Add Connection button and a dialog will appear.
  • Specify a Name, the Acceptor Account ID (the GCP project ID), and the Acceptor VPC ID of your GCP VPC from where you want to connect, and click Create.
  • The connection will be created in the Inactive status.
  • Next, you should accept the peering connection using your GCP account.
  • Follow the Google Cloud guide here, specify --peer-network and --peer-project with the VPC ID and Account ID values from the Dragonfly Cloud private network you wish to connect.
  • Observe the connection becoming Active after a few moments in the Dragonfly Cloud console.
  • Don't forget to modify your firewall to allow traffic from the Dragonfly Cloud private network CIDR.

If you haven't done so already, create a data store with a private endpoint and start building your applications with it. Read more about creating a data store with a private endpoint here.