Share your VPC subnets with other accounts

VPC subnet sharing allows multiple AWS accounts to create their application resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) databases, Amazon Redshift clusters, and AWS Lambda functions, into shared, centrally-managed virtual private clouds (VPCs). In this model, the account that owns the VPC (owner) shares one or more subnets with other accounts (participants) that belong to the same organization from AWS Organizations. After a subnet is shared, the participants can view, create, modify, and delete their application resources in the subnets shared with them. Participants cannot view, modify, or delete resources that belong to other participants or the VPC owner.

You can share your VPC subnets to leverage the implicit routing within a VPC for applications that require a high degree of interconnectivity and are within the same trust boundaries. This reduces the number of VPCs that you create and manage, while using separate accounts for billing and access control. You can simplify network topologies by interconnecting shared Amazon VPC subnets using connectivity features, such as AWS PrivateLink, transit gateways, and VPC peering. For more information about the benefits of VPC subnet sharing, see VPC sharing: A new approach to multiple accounts and VPC management.

There are quotas related to VPC subnet sharing. For more information, see VPC subnet sharing.