Is VPC peering traffic within the region encrypted?
No. Traffic between instances in peered VPCs remains private and isolated – similar to how traffic between two instances in the same VPC is...

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No. Traffic between instances in peered VPCs remains private and isolated – similar to how traffic between two instances in the same VPC is private and isolated.