VPC for dummies. Your first network set up in AWS
Amazon VPC: Virtual Private Cloud. Basic concepts You can imagine how many millions of customers using AWS services. Also, imagine the millions of resources created by them. Resources such as Amazon EC2 instances. Without boundaries around all of these resources, network traffic would be able to flow between them unrestricted. A networking service that you can use to establish boundaries around your AWS resources is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) . Amazon VPC enables you to provision an isolated section of the AWS Cloud. In this isolated section, you can launch resources in a virtual network that you define. Within a virtual private cloud (VPC), you can organize your resources into subnets. A subnet is a section of a VPC that can contain resources such as Amazon EC2 instances. Main Concepts: 1. Internet gateway To allow public traffic from the internet to access your VPC, you attach an internet gateway to the VPC. An internet gateway is a connection bet