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V1 Route Tables will not be deleted, but will not be used in the v2 architecture. Cornell AWS account owners can delete the v1 Route Tables if they wish. Once the VGWs are deleted, those v1 Route Tables will not be all that functional.

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Costs

The management and routing simplification offered by the v2 architecture comes with a modest increase change in costs seen by Cornell AWS accounts using direct connect. using Direct Connect.

V1 Architecture

Cornell AWS accounts using Direct Connect will no longer see these charges:

  • Bandwidth charges for traffic from VPCs to campus using the Direct Connect is charged at $0.02/GB.
  • Bandwidth charges from traffic TO VPCs from campus is free.

V2 Architecture

These charges are new to Cornell AWS customers using Direct Connect:

  • Every VPC connected to the Transit Gateway will be charged $0.05/hr

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  • Bandwidth charges for traffic from the VPC to the TGW is $0.02/GB
  • Bandwidth for traffic from the TGW to the VPC is free.

Summary

In total, Cornell AWS accounts using Direct Connect should not experience any significant change in bandwidth-related charges for VPC traffic bound for the campus. But, these AWS accounts will see an increase in Direct Connect-related costs of about $36/mo for each VPC connected to the v2 Direct Connect architecture.

If you have concerns about these cost changes, please contact cloud-support@cornell.edu.  bandwidth through the TGW.

Migration Process

draw.io source: direct-connect-migration-process.v2.drawio

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How will this change affect my AWS account costs?

(error)Please see the Costs section above.

Does this change affect VPC peering?

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