Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Creating a VPC for IoT Analytics

Now, we will get into the fun part by creating a fully-fledged, highly available cloud environment. You will have a secure functioning data center at your fingertips in about 20 minutes. We will leverage CloudFormation and a quick start template to create a VPC that has some key elements:

• Public subnets: Resources in this subnet can be discoverable over the public internet if configured with a public IP, an attached internet gateway, and appropriate route tables. You would only want to put things such as web servers or NAT instances here.
• Private subnets: Resources in these subnets are hidden from public view. Anything outside your VPC cannot find what you put here even if it has a public IP address. For ...