December 2016This whitepaper outlines high-availability architectural best practices for customers who are considering integration between Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in one or more regions with their existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. The whitepaper provides best practices for connecting single and/or multiregional configurations with your MPLS provider. It also describes how customers can incorporate VPN backup for each of their remote offices to maintain connectivity to AWS Regions in the event of a network or MPLS outage.The target audience of this whitepaper includes technology decision makers, network architects, and network engineers. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/.