Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Public versus private subnets

When you set up a cloud environment for analytics, you are creating your own networking environment. You, or hopefully a skilled network guru, will need to define the networking structure. A basic component of this is the concept of subnets.

Subnets are logical subdivisions of the overall network in your cloud environment. You launch resources into a subnet where it will follow the internet addressing rules defining for the subnet. A public subnet has resources that can be addressable from the outside internet. This does not mean that all resources in the subnet can be found from the outside; you would need to assign a public IP address to it first.

A private subnet is not addressable from the outside internet. ...