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Creates a virtual private gateway. A virtual private gateway is the endpoint on the VPC side of your VPN connection. You can create a virtual private gateway before creating the VPC itself.

For more information, see Amazon Web Services Site-to-Site VPN in the Amazon Web Services Site-to-Site VPN User Guide.

get/#Action=CreateVpnGateway

Query parameters

AvailabilityZonestring

The Availability Zone for the virtual private gateway.

Type'ipsec.1' required

The type of VPN connection this virtual private gateway supports.

ResourceType'capacity-reservation' | 'client-vpn-endpoint' | 'customer-gateway' | 'carrier-gateway' | 'coip-pool' | 'dedicated-host' | 'dhcp-options' | 'egress-only-internet-gateway' | 'elastic-ip' | 'elastic-gpu' | 'export-image-task' | 'export-instance-task' | 'fleet' | 'fpga-image' | 'host-reservation' | 'image' | 'import-image-task' | 'import-snapshot-task' | 'instance' | 'instance-event-window' | 'internet-gateway' | 'ipam' | 'ipam-pool' | 'ipam-scope' | 'ipv4pool-ec2' | 'ipv6pool-ec2' | 'key-pair' | 'launch-template' | 'local-gateway' | 'local-gateway-route-table' | 'local-gateway-virtual-interface' | 'local-gateway-virtual-interface-group' | 'local-gateway-route-table-vpc-association' | 'local-gateway-route-table-virtual-interface-group-association' | 'natgateway' | 'network-acl' | 'network-interface' | 'network-insights-analysis' | 'network-insights-path' | 'network-insights-access-scope' | 'network-insights-access-scope-analysis' | 'placement-group' | 'prefix-list' | 'replace-root-volume-task' | 'reserved-instances' | 'route-table' | 'security-group' | 'security-group-rule' | 'snapshot' | 'spot-fleet-request' | 'spot-instances-request' | 'subnet' | 'subnet-cidr-reservation' | 'traffic-mirror-filter' | 'traffic-mirror-session' | 'traffic-mirror-target' | 'transit-gateway' | 'transit-gateway-attachment' | 'transit-gateway-connect-peer' | 'transit-gateway-multicast-domain' | 'transit-gateway-policy-table' | 'transit-gateway-route-table' | 'transit-gateway-route-table-announcement' | 'volume' | 'vpc' | 'vpc-endpoint' | 'vpc-endpoint-connection' | 'vpc-endpoint-service' | 'vpc-endpoint-service-permission' | 'vpc-peering-connection' | 'vpn-connection' | 'vpn-gateway' | 'vpc-flow-log' | 'capacity-reservation-fleet' | 'traffic-mirror-filter-rule' | 'vpc-endpoint-connection-device-type' | 'verified-access-instance' | 'verified-access-group' | 'verified-access-endpoint' | 'verified-access-policy' | 'verified-access-trust-provider' | 'vpn-connection-device-type' | 'vpc-block-public-access-exclusion' | 'ipam-resource-discovery' | 'ipam-resource-discovery-association'

The type of resource to tag on creation.

The tags to apply to the virtual private gateway.

AmazonSideAsninteger
<p>A private Autonomous System Number (ASN) for the Amazon side of a BGP session. If you're using a 16-bit ASN, it must be in the 64512 to 65534 range. If you're using a 32-bit ASN, it must be in the 4200000000 to 4294967294 range.</p> <p>Default: 64512</p>
DryRunboolean

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is <code>DryRunOperation</code>. Otherwise, it is <code>UnauthorizedOperation</code>.

Action'CreateVpnGateway' required
Version'2016-11-15' required

Response

Success