Setting up and using AWS RAM
AWS RAM enables us to securely share AWS resources with other AWS accounts or within our AWS organization. The resources we can share include transit gateways, subnets, AWS License Manager configurations, and Amazon Route 53 resolver rules. In this recipe, we will learn to use AWS RAM to share a subnet.
Getting ready
We need the following to successfully complete the recipe:
- A management account with AWS Organizations set up as discussed in the Multi-account management with AWS Organizations recipe from Chapter 1. I will be using the
aws-sec-cookbook-1account that we created in that recipe. - A member account within the organization to share resources with.
- VPC and subnets by following the Setting up VPC plus VPC resources with minimal effort recipe in Chapter 5, however, you may skip creating a NAT gateway.
How to do it...
We can set up and use AWS RAM as follows:
- Go to the Resource Access Manager service in the AWS...