Patent ID: 11902367
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A provider network, comprising;
two or more regional networks each comprising:
one or more virtual private networks each including one or more virtual machines executing on host devices on its respective regional network; and
a control plane implemented by one or more devices that performs network configuration and management for its respective regional network;

wherein the control plane of the first regional network of the two or more regional networks performs:
receive, from a first private network peering interface, input specifying an inter-region peering request for a first private network in the first regional network and a second private network in a second regional network of the two or more regional networks;
send a first peering record indicating the inter-region peering request to a control plane of the second regional network;
receive a second peering record indicating a response to the inter-region peering request from the control plane of the second regional network; and
send the response to the inter-region peering request to the first private network peering interface.