
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports VPC peering with VMware Cloud on AWS, eliminating the need for AWS Transit Gateway and reducing costs while improving security and network latency for NFS datastore connections.


<div><p>This article announces VPC peering support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP with VMware Cloud on AWS, eliminating the AWS Transit Gateway requirement.</p><ul><li>VPC peering enables private, secure connectivity between VMware SDDC and FSx for NetApp ONTAP</li><li>Reduces network transit costs and improves latency with sub-millisecond ENI-to-ENI communication</li><li>Supports single-AZ SDDC deployments running v1.20 or newer</li><li>NFS datastore traffic only; other traffic explicitly blocked</li><li>No VPC peering creation charges; cross-AZ data transfer fees apply</li><li>Multi-AZ deployments continue requiring AWS Transit Gateway</li><li>Lowers total cost of ownership by eliminating Transit Gateway data processing fees</li></ul><p>VPC peering provides a simpler, more cost-effective connectivity option for VMware Cloud on AWS customers using FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage.</p></div>


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