direct connect association

Question

Hello,

I have two direct connect ports terminating  for Mumbai region.

How can I associate both direct connect ports with direct connect gateway.  I have multiple VPC that needs to be associated with direct connect gateway and I want Active/Failover

Accepted Answer

Hello,

Below are the steps:

1/ [Create a Direct Connect gateway](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/direct-connect-gateways-intro.html#create-direct-connect-gateway)

2/ Associate a [Virtual private gateway (VGW)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/multi-account-associate-vgw.html) Or [Associate Transit gateway (TGW)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/multi-account-associate-tgw.html)

3/ Provision a [Private virtual interface Or a Transit virtual interface to a Direct Connect gateway](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/create-vif.html#create-private-vif)

[Knowledge center article](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/set-up-direct-connect-gateway/)

Answer

Hello,
Yes you can do that and have Active-Passive connections.

Advertise community tag 7224:7300 on active link and 7224:7200 on passive link and this should work.

If you want it to be active-active, please advertise the same tags on both the connections.

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