February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
5h 51m
English
Virtual Private Cloud, or VPC, is technically not a part of EC2. However, this is usually the first step when getting started with EC2. VPC creates a virtual network which logically isolates our resources. This improves security and management since, logically, subnet and gateway are dedicated for our resources only. A common usage of VPC is to isolate public-facing services (like load balancers or instances running public services) and servers storing data (like databases) which do not require direct access from the wider internet.

Technically, a VPC has several moving parts, as depicted in the preceding image. ...
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