Pause, restart, or delete a peering connection

A peering connection can be paused and restarted as often as you like, and deleted when you no longer need it. Pause it to cut the link between two networks for a while, such as during maintenance, and keep its setup for later. Delete it to remove the link for good, for example before you delete one of the VPCs.

Before you begin

• A VPC with a peering connection. Select it in Network > VPC and open its Peering Connections tab, which lists each connection with its Status and Peer VPC. The actions below are in each connection’s actions menu.

Pause a connection

Choose Pause. The tunnel stops, and the connection shows In-active. Resources in the two VPCs can no longer reach each other through it, and their routes stay in place for when you restart. Pause is greyed out while the connection is creating, has failed, or is already paused.

Restart a connection

Choose Restart on a paused connection, or on one that has gone down. A message confirms the restart, and the connection shows Active again once the tunnel is back up. If a restart does not bring it back, see Troubleshooting VPC.

Delete a connection

Deleting a connection disconnects every resource that uses it, and it cannot be undone: to join the two VPCs again, you create a new connection and add the routes again.

1. Choose Delete Connection.
2. In Delete Peering Connection, tick I understand and I want to delete my peering connection. and click Delete.

A message confirms the delete, and the connection leaves the Peering Connections tab of both VPCs. E2E also takes the security group it added for the connection off both gateways, and sends you an email.

The routes you added on your resources stay until they restart. Remove them if you like, with the same command as before and del in place of add, for example ip route del 10.100.74.0/23 via 10.20.0.1. To remove one of the VPCs next, see Delete a VPC.