- For having transitive peering between thousands of VPC and on-premises, hub-and-spoke (star) connection
- Regional resource, can work cross-region
- Share cross-account using Resource Access Manager (RAM)
- You can peer Transit Gateways across regions
- Route Tables: limit which VPC can talk with other VPC
- Works with Direct Connect Gateway, VPN connections
- Supports
(not supported by any other AWS service)
- ECMP = Equal-cost multi-path routing
- Routing strategy to allow to forward a packet over multiple best path
- Use case: create multiple Site-to-Site VPN connections to increase the bandwidth of your connection to AWS