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Sharing VPC resources

Sharing VPC resources - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Sharing VPC resources

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to look at a concept of sharing, sharing resources amongst AWS accounts. The idea with sharing is to make it simpler to be able to share, for example, a subnet and the resources on that subnet with other AWS accounts. Now, multiple accounts might be part of your organization, especially if you've set up separate AWS accounts for say databases, shared storage, auditing, and so on. Sharing the resources uses a tool called the resource access manager. And it's gooey driven and allowing you to share the resource, as mentioned, between two AWS accounts. You also can go further and centralize sharing through what's called an organization, which is a tree of AWS accounts. So if you are in a very large organization with multiple AWS accounts, sharing your resources, using the Resource Access Manager can be much more beneficial than saying, "Well, I'm going to have to peer resources together in order to get access to those resources." So in a way, the…

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