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# What is AWS Direct Connect?

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## Routing policies and BGP communities

* **Note**\
  If you do not apply any community tags, prefixes are advertised to all public AWS Regions (global) by default.\
  Prefixes that are marked with the same communities, and have identical AS\_PATH attributes are candidates for multi-pathing.


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