What is VPC Peering and Why Should I Use It?

1 · CockroachDB · Dec. 11, 2020, 5:02 p.m.
If you’re building and managing applications in public cloud providers like GCP or AWS, chances are you’ve heard of VPC peering. This blog post explains what VPC peering is, why you’d want to use it, and, if you’re using CockroachCloud today, how you can get started with our new VPC peering functionality. What is a VPC and what is VPC peering? First thing’s first - a virtual private cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated, virtual network within a cloud provider....