Amazon VPC and AWS Site-to-Site VPN Workshop > Setting Up Site-to-Site VPN Connection in AWS > VPN Connection using Strongswan with Transit Gateway (Optional) > Create Customer Gateway

Create Customer Gateway

Access VPC
- Select Customer Gateways
- Click Create Customer Gateway
In the Create Customer Gateway interface
- Name tag, enter Customer Gateway
- IP address, enter the public IP address of the EC2 Customer Gateway.
- Click Create Customer Gateway
Wait about 5 minutes to complete the creation of the Customer Gateway

Note: According to the architectural model, the Customer Gateway will be located in the VPC in the on-premises environment. Currently, we are declaring to AWS that we will have a Customer Gateway with the public IP address being the public address of the EC2 instance: Customer Gateway located in the ASG VPN VPC.