Virtual gateway

AWS directly supports another type of VPN connection, known as a hardware VPN.

For this, you attach a virtual private gateway to your VPC and install a supported customer gateway in your data center:

Like the software VPN, traffic is encrypted with IPsec tunneling. Both hardware and software VPNs use the public internet for the transport layer.

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