View VPC Peering from your terminal
orbit lists VPC Peering as a dense, sortable table: 6 columns including Name, Peering Id and Status, fetched with EC2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections.
Every action on this view is a read, so browsing cannot change anything even in a writable run.
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What the VPC Peering table shows
| Column | Source field |
|---|---|
| Name | Tags.Name |
| Peering Id | VpcPeeringConnectionId |
| Status | Status |
| Requester Vpc | RequesterVpcId |
| Accepter Vpc | AccepterVpcId |
| Peer Region | AccepterRegion |
Columns with an opt-in flag are hidden by default; press v for the column visibility picker.
Actions on VPC Peering
This view has no row actions beyond reading: everything you can do here is navigate, filter, sort and describe. Deeper views are reached by pressing Enter on a row.
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IAM permissions for this view
Read-only browsing needs EC2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections
plus the standard EC2 List and Describe permissions for the surrounding views.
Questions about VPC Peering in orbit
What IAM permissions do I need to view VPC Peering in orbit?
orbit lists VPC Peering with EC2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections, so a policy granting EC2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections is enough for read-only browsing of this view.
Is browsing VPC Peering safe against a production account?
Read-only is the default. Listing and describing VPC Peering performs no mutations.
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