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View transit gateway policy tables in AWS Transit Gateway - Amazon VPC
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View transit gateway policy tables in AWS Transit Gateway

You can view your transit gateway policy tables and their entries.

View policy tables

To view transit gateway policy tables using the console

  1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/.

  2. In the navigation pane, under Transit Gateways, choose Transit Gateway Policy Tables.

  3. To filter by transit gateway, use the search bar and filter on Transit gateway ID.

  4. The list shows each policy table's Transit gateway policy table ID, Transit gateway ID, and State.

  5. Select a policy table to view its details, associations, and entries on the detail page.

To track your entry usage against the per-transit gateway limit, use the Service Quotas console. See Quotas for details.

To view transit gateway policy tables using the AWS CLI

To list all policy tables on your account, use the describe-transit-gateway-policy-tables command.

aws ec2 describe-transit-gateway-policy-tables \
    --filters "Name=transit-gateway-id,Values=tgw-0bc994abffEXAMPLE"

Example response:

{
    "TransitGatewayPolicyTables": [
        {
            "TransitGatewayPolicyTableId": "tgw-ptb-0ca78a549EXAMPLE",
            "TransitGatewayId": "tgw-0bc994abffEXAMPLE",
            "State": "available",
            "CreationTime": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
            "Tags": []
        }
    ]
}

View policy table entries

To view policy table entries using the console

  1. In Transit Gateway Policy Tables, select the policy table.

  2. Choose the Entries tab.

  3. The Entries tab displays all entries with the following columns: Rule number, State, Target route table, Source CIDR block, Source port, Destination CIDR block, Destination port, and Protocol. System-managed entries display * as their rule number.

  4. To filter entries, use the search bar. You can filter by rule number, target route table, source CIDR, destination CIDR, source port, destination port, or protocol.

To check total usage against the per-transit gateway limit, use the Service Quotas console. See Quotas for details.

To view policy table entries using the AWS CLI

Use the get-transit-gateway-policy-table-entries command.

aws ec2 get-transit-gateway-policy-table-entries \
    --transit-gateway-policy-table-id tgw-ptb-0ca78a549EXAMPLE

Example response:

{
    "TransitGatewayPolicyTableEntries": [
        {
            "PolicyRuleNumber": "100",
            "PolicyRule": {
                "SourceCidrBlock": "10.100.0.0/16",
                "SourcePortRange": "*",
                "DestinationCidrBlock": "*",
                "DestinationPortRange": "443",
                "Protocol": "6"
            },
            "TargetRouteTableId": "tgw-rtb-0ca78a549EXAMPLE",
            "State": "active"
        },
        {
            "PolicyRuleNumber": "*",
            "PolicyRule": {
                "SourceCidrBlock": "*",
                "SourcePortRange": "*",
                "DestinationCidrBlock": "*",
                "DestinationPortRange": "*",
                "Protocol": "*",
                "MetaData": {
                    "MetaDataKey": "TgwRouteTable",
                    "MetaDataValue": "tgw-rtb-0ca62a892EXAMPLE"
                }
            },
            "TargetRouteTableId": "tgw-rtb-0ca62a892EXAMPLE",
            "State": "active"
        }
    ]
}
Supported filters

The following filters are supported for GetTransitGatewayPolicyTableEntries.

Supported filters
Filter Description
policy-rule-number Filter by rule number
target-route-table-id Filter by target route table ID
policy-rule.source-ip Filter by source CIDR block
policy-rule.destination-ip Filter by destination CIDR block
policy-rule.source-port Filter by source port range
policy-rule.destination-port Filter by destination port range
policy-rule.protocol Filter by protocol
policy-rule.meta-data.key Filter by metadata key (reserved for future MetaData-enabled entries)
policy-rule.meta-data.value Filter by metadata value (reserved for future MetaData-enabled entries)