What are AWS VPC Managed Prefix Lists
Do you remember, when you want to restrict access to your services/resources to certain IPs (Most of these IPs could be from your office network IPs, datacenter IPs, your overseas office IPs etc), You head to security group and realise that you have to add those IPs one by one and every-time you create another security group, you have to do the same tasks again and again.
Here comes the managed prefix lists to rescue. You can create a prefix list and add all your IPs and then use the prefix list in your security groups or route tables. Now when you want to update your IPs, you just need to update the prefix list.
Note: As it is with every security group rule or route table entry, you should consciously add IPs to the prefix lists. Any IP in the prefix list will have access to associated resources.
Now let’s discuss prefix lists in more detail and see how to create and use them. AWS supports two types of managed prefix lists.
1. AWS managed prefix lists
AWS supports prefix lists for CloudFront, DyanamoDB/S3 Gateway endpoints, Ground Station and VPC Lattice.
