# Hybrid connectivity
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 This section focuses on securely connecting your cloud resources with your on-premises data centers. There are three approaches for enabling hybrid connectivity: 
+  **One-to-one connectivity** — In this setup, a VPN connection and/or Direct Connect private VIF is created for every VPC. This is accomplished by using the virtual private gateway (VGW). This option is great for small numbers of VPCs, but as a customer scales their VPCs, managing hybrid connectivity per VPC can become difficult. 
+  **Edge consolidation** — In this setup, customers consolidate hybrid IT connectivity for multiple VPCs at a single endpoint. All the VPCs share these hybrid connections. This is accomplished by using AWS Transit Gateway and the Direct Connect gateway. 
+  **Full mesh hybrid consolidation** — In this setup, customers consolidate connectivity for multiple VPCs at a single endpoint using CloudWAN, built on AWS Transit Gateway. This is a full policy-based approach to networking in one or more AWS accounts, represented in code. At this time, using Direct Connect for edge connectivity requires peering Transit Gateway to CloudWAN.