Amazon Web Services → Microsoft Azure
Azure equivalent of AWS Transit Gateway
AWS Transit Gateway maps to Azure Virtual WAN.
About AWS Transit Gateway
| Provider | Amazon Web Services |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | Regional cloud router that connects VPCs, VPNs, Direct Connect, and peered transit gateways in a hub-and-spoke design, with multiple route tables for segmentation. |
| Documentation | docs.aws.amazon.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Azure mappings (1)
| Capability | Azure equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Hub-and-spoke transit routing | Azure Virtual WAN, Azure Virtual Network Manager | Partial match |
Network-to-network & hybrid connectivity(1)
Hub-and-spoke transit routing Partial match
AWS Transit Gateway maps to Azure Virtual WAN. Many Azure designs instead build a customer-managed hub virtual network (with Azure Firewall or an NVA, plus gateways), optionally deployed with Virtual Network Manager.
- Scope. Transit Gateway is regional and peers with other transit gateways across Regions. Virtual WAN hubs in a Standard virtual WAN are fully meshed across regions automatically.
- Security. Virtual WAN can host Azure Firewall or partner NVAs in secured hubs, managed through Firewall Manager. On AWS, inspection usually uses an inspection VPC with Network Firewall or a Gateway Load Balancer, or native Network Firewall attachments.
- Routes. Microsoft's comparison notes that Transit Gateway allows 100 BGP prefixes per attachment, while Virtual WAN private peering allows 1,000. Check current quotas for your design.