Quick Answer
The answer is AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Network Manager. These two services work together to provide centralized VPN management across multiple AWS accounts, with Transit Gateway acting as the hub for interconnecting VPCs and VPNs, while Network Manager offers a unified dashboard to monitor tunnel health, performance metrics, and global network topology. On the AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty ANS-C01 exam, this pairing tests your understanding of cross-account network visibility and resource sharing, often appearing in scenario-based questions where you must select the combination that enables centralized oversight without deploying per-account VPN appliances. A common trap is choosing AWS Direct Connect Gateway alone, which handles dedicated connections but lacks the multi-account monitoring and VPN-centric features of Network Manager. Remember the mnemonic “Twin N” — Transit Gateway for transport, Network Manager for the view — to recall that centralized VPN management requires both the connectivity hub and the monitoring plane.
This ANS-C01 practice question tests your understanding of network management and operations. Match the stated requirement to the specific cloud service, access model, or configuration option — many options are valid in isolation but not for this scenario. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
Which TWO services can be used to centrally manage and monitor VPN connections across multiple AWS accounts? (Choose 2.)
AWS Network Manager
Monitors global network across accounts.
AWS Transit Gateway
Can centralize VPN attachments.
AWS CloudFormation
Why wrong: Infrastructure as code, not monitoring.
AWS Organizations
Why wrong: Account management, not network monitoring.
AWS Direct Connect Gateway
Why wrong: For Direct Connect, not VPN.
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
AWS Network Manager
AWS Network Manager centrally manages and monitors VPN connections across multiple AWS accounts by providing a global view of your network topology, including on-premises and AWS resources. It integrates with Transit Gateway to monitor VPN tunnel status and performance metrics, enabling cross-account visibility via resource shares.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
AWS Network Manager
Why this is correct
Monitors global network across accounts.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
AWS Transit Gateway
Why this is correct
Can centralize VPN attachments.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
AWS CloudFormation
Why it's wrong here
Infrastructure as code, not monitoring.
AWS Organizations
Why it's wrong here
Account management, not network monitoring.
AWS Direct Connect Gateway
Why it's wrong here
For Direct Connect, not VPN.
Common exam traps
AWS often tests the misconception that AWS Organizations itself provides network monitoring, but it only handles account governance, not VPN management or monitoring.
Detailed technical explanation
AWS Network Manager uses Transit Gateway Network Manager to create a global network, where you can monitor VPN tunnel status (UP/DOWN) and metrics like bytes-in/out via CloudWatch. It supports cross-account monitoring by accepting Transit Gateway resource shares from AWS RAM, allowing a central account to view VPN connections from multiple accounts without logging into each one.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
A healthcare organisation deploys an application with a public-facing web tier and a private database tier. The database subnet has no public IP and only accepts connections from the web tier's security group. Questions like this test whether you can design cloud network isolation using VNets/VPCs, subnets, and security group rules.
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Network Management and Operations — This question tests Network Management and Operations — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: AWS Network Manager — AWS Network Manager centrally manages and monitors VPN connections across multiple AWS accounts by providing a global view of your network topology, including on-premises and AWS resources. It integrates with Transit Gateway to monitor VPN tunnel status and performance metrics, enabling cross-account visibility via resource shares.
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